"Ladies and Gentlemen, we will take a short break before Act II starts, so that our actors have time to move to the scenery. We will inform you five minutes before we start again, please enjoy a short break."
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The first Act was a great success, Hermes had watched the play with one eye and the audience with his other. People had laughed, cheered, sat on the edges of their seats during the fight...and he saw far more than one woman biting their lower lip as they watched what Bell did to Haruhime.
He guessed a few that he knew would have loved to be in Haruhime´s place, to receive a wall slam by such a handsome adventurer.
"Kuh...my little Bell...little Ais is soooo lucky..."
Hestia waved herself fresh air to calm down.
During the break, Hermes consulted his script, he was the only one with the master script. So far he was very statisfied, he was sure the figures of the play would sell well. Sadly Asfi had punched him as he presented her the first prototype of a special figure. It was basically soap in the form of Haruhime, the more someone would use it, the more would her clothes melt. But...Asfi had punched him and destroyed the figure, as well as the formular to produce these, she wouldn´t tolerate anything lewd. Also she yelled at him how he could dare to lewd such an innocent, pure, young woman.
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The break didn´t went on too long, before it continued.
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"The young heroes got their relics...but will they help them to defeat the queen and her subjects? We will see...the journey continues!".
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"Big brother, do you really think these relics will help us?"
"Of course I do, they are a gift from the Goddess of Justice after all! Who is said to be quite a beauty!"
"Hah...you never change..."
"By the way, my adorable, little sister...that veil really suits you and enhances your beauty even more."
"Y-You think so?"
"Yes! This is the perfect color for you! I bet the demon queen will send a thousand minions at us, just because she can´t tolerate someone as beautiful as she is said to be!"
"Argo...do you try to flirt with every woman out there?"
"But they are all so beautiful! And they deserve to be loved!"
"You have to be more considerate! The poor Miko..."
"What did I do?!"
"Y-You know!"
"No! What was it? I just talked to her."
"Hah...unbelievable..."
This part actually wasn´t an act, Bell really didn´t knew what he did to Haruhime...and she would never tell him...or she would die of embarrassement.
"Let us go! I heard the demon queen has taken the Ice Queen as her underling, she is said to be quite the beauty too!"
"Brooootheeeer..."
"Don´t worry, Fina. I also heard she is way too old for someone like me! Fahahaha!"
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Loki gulped with a bad feeling when she heard Bell´s last sentence.
Strangely...in that moment...all the mirrors that showed the inside of the demon queens castle...started to freeze. For a short moment, the Ice Queen was visible...it looked like a blizzard started to rage in her room...the light got dim and her eyes literally shone.
Hermes felt a strange chill running down his spine, but decided to not notice it...and take a small vacation for a few days after the stage play...of course not to get out of Riveria´s reach...or that of many other elves. He wouldn´t get far before Laurier from his Familia punished him...as well as Eina when he visited the guild.
Bell wouldn´t receive any punishment, he just acted to his lines.
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"I still think we could need some alli-...what is that noise?"
Bell and Lefiya stopped, they heard loud noises from the front...it sounded like a fight.
"Let us hurry, dear sister!"
"I´m right behind you!"
The sound of small explosions and heavy weapons being swung through the air filled the mirrors.
"Let´s go, Ursu!"
What awaited them was really a sight to behold. It was a young man with flaming red hair, black and silver boots, wide dark red pants, a sort of red and golden tunic, and a beige, sleeveless shirt. His hands were covered by bandages. In his hands he held a large sword, the core was black with fiery red runes, the sides and the tip looked like slightly orange metal. What was really breathtaking about him, were the flames that whirled around him...especially those around the blade.
Or rather...
The female body that rose from his sword...made out of flames.
Made out of literal flames rose a red-orange body with bright yellow runes along the body, it started at the hip, the arms didn´t even had ellbows or hands, just flames...it was only to be noticed that this form was female...due to two big reasons...the face was basically just the bright, white eyes, a chin and no nose or mouth, the hair were flames.
The audience, gasped, yelled out and clapped by this sight...it looked really awesome.
The young man fought against an amazoness in very daring clothes...well not for an amazoness...she had a tail, small wings and horns...her form was supposed to look like a succubus...and they made an brilliant job.
But...
One part wasn´t a show, nor a trick...this figure that came out of the sword was real.
It had started two weeks ago, they had celebrated Welf leveling up to four. The next day the Hestia and Loki Familia held a cross training when something unusual happened. Welf got the skill "Ancient Blood - An eternal bond", with no explanation what it did.
During the training he fought against Ais...who had to hold back a lot..., when his nameless sword and Hurricane collided after Ais used her magic a bit, flames rushed out of the blade and they heard a groan.
The training stopped since Welf didn´t summoned the flames, nor could he control them. They whirled around the blade faster and faster, the groan got louder.
Suddenly Ais looked really strange.
"Don´t try to hold her back...let her out..."
"What are you talking about, Sword Princess?!"
"She wants to see you..."
The flames took the form of the female upper body, staring at Welf and making strange noises, since it had no mouth.
Ais´ eyes shone slightly green for some reason...and she talked to the flames.
"He is the one of the Crozzo blood."
The figure turned to her, made noises again and then looked at Welf.
"Mr. Crozzo, you are an descendant of the famous Crozzo...right?"
"Wha?! Eh ah..y-yes I am!"
He tried to hold the blade as far away from him as possible, but the figure leaned closer...it looked almost like...it was smiling, since the eyes squinted slightly and the cheeks rose a bit.
The figure made noises again and Ais responded in a sound that wasn´t meant for mortal tongues, after that she let her green and golden wind whirl around her. Flames of the figure moved along Ais´ wind and around Welf´s arms...without burning him.
"S-Sword Princess?!"
The others watched amazed.
"Ursu says she is happy to meet you...again?"
"U-Ursu?"
The flame figure shone brightly when Welf spoke the name.
"Yes, her name...don´t you know her?"
"Her?!"
"She is a Volcani spirit, a higher form of what you call "Salamander"."
"A spirit?!"
"Yes, even if she is weaker now than in her prime...she says she knows you."
"E-Eh?!"
All of them were surprised when the spirit leaned closer and...poked her face against Welf´s cheek...as if she was giving him a kiss there.
From this day onward, the spirit was bound to Welf...yet he couldn´t call Ursu whenever he wanted. She appeared or didn´t, maybe how she liked it...or out of other reasons. The second time she appeared was in Hephaistos´ forge, the goddess and Tsubaki dropped their jaws when they saw her...Hephaistos immediately noticed it was a spirit.
Ursu looked back and forth between Welf and Hephaistos, they had to ask for Ais´ help again to translate. The flame spirit lit up the forge of Hephaistos with her own fire...and asked Welf to forge her a sword...a body. With the help of Hephaistos and Tsubaki, Welf managed to do that in under two weeks.
Not that he wanted to refuse...but the spirit didn´t gave him a chance even if he had wanted to.
Ais told Welf that this was the same spirit that his ancestor had rescued and it seemed like she had slept in his bloodline, until she woke up in Welf. There was something else that Ursu told Ais, but asked her to not tell Welf that.
The flame spirit noticed that Ais was the daughter of a greater wind spirit...she felt the kinship.
That to say, Ursu was quite jealous, Welf wasn´t allowed to use any other sword now than "Flame-Tan", apparently the flame spirit liked his strange taste in names.
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"Let´s go Ursu!"
Welf raised his sword with both hands and shouted towards Tione.
"Begone evil demon!"
"Ksshaaa! Don´t get cocky!"
Tione´s outfit was a feast for the eyes. All of her clothes were purple. She walked with bare feet, but had stockings that covered her legs until half of her thighs, a skirt that rather deserved to be called a belt, a brassiered that looked like her usual chestband and short sleeves that only covered her arms.
In addition she had horns attached to her head with a magical "glue", a slender tail that ended in a tip like an arrow head and two small wings.
The flames weren´t strong enough to hurt Tione, she was too strong for that. Ursu´s flames hissed while she mad an amazing show together with Welf...could the spirit get what they were doing here...and enjoyed the show? Maybe Ais could tell them that.
"A demon! Come little sister, let us help this good man!"
"I´m behind you, Argo!"
The young man with the burning sword and the Succubus whirled around each other, she slashed with her daggers and he countered as good as possible with his sword. Bell drew his sword and dashed forward.
"Begone evil demon!"
"Shha!"
Tione jumped backwards and lashed with her tail at Bell...the basic idea from the moving tail...came actually from the pleasure quarter...it was meant for women who had partner with an exotic taste. Tione had trained for two weeks to move it how she intended to...she actually quite liked it.
"You will never reach the castle! HE will stop you!"
"Who is he?!"
"The handsome Prince of course! MY handsome Prince!"
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When Tione and Finn were on the screen together for a short moment before, she had grabbed his chin and kissed him passionately on the lips, glancing to the side, towards the mirror. It was a simple yet powerful gesture...Finn was HER man...so that every woman who saw the broadcast would know that.
The kiss wasn´t part of the script, but she had to mark her territory...Finn was used enough to amazons...especially this one...that he got her intention.
Finn had held the tail in his left hand, slightly squeezing it...it sent a shiver of pleasure through Tione´s spine.
"You are quite bold...for my subordinate..."
"Y-Yes, I´m sorry capt-...I mean prince..."
Tione had fidgeted before Finn kissed her...showing everyone that he really belonged to her.
"Now go and fulfill the queens orders."
"Yes! Ca-...Prince!"
And so Tione had ran off to get into her first position. The improvisation caused a murmur from the crowd...Tione wouldn´t be the last amazoness in Orario that would wear a succubus outfit...and many of her kin were thankfull towards her for giving their partners this idea.
That included a certain amazoness from the Hestia Familia...and a wolf man who cursed Tione for that.
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"Sister, save your magic for now! We will deal with her! You there, swordsman, I´m with you!"
"You have my thanks, but I can do this on my own! Ursuuuu!"
The flames washed forward and nearly devoured Tione.
"Shaaa! Curse you and your spirit sword! I will get you for this...later!"
Tione jumped away, the wings didn´t allowed her to fly, but make wide jumps.
"Brother, should we follow her?!"
"No, Fina. It could be a trap."
Bell and Lefiya stopped next to Welf, the flames around "Flame-Tan" got smaller and smaller, Ursu...winked...before she disappeared for now.
"You have my thanks, you two."
Welf grinned and leaned his sword against his right shoulder.
"Not for that, you have fought against a mighty demon all by yourself...with such an impressing sword!"
Bell actually really liked Welf´s new sword...a fact that seemed to make Vesta...how he had named the Hestia Knife...and Olympus...jealous?
"Ah this was nothing, we thought it was time to give these demons a fine beating."
"We?" Lefiya blinked.
"Ah, I mean me, Ursu and she of course...Heeeey you can come out now!"
The bushes rustled and someone appeared. Many people in Orario yelled out in surprise and admiration, while a certain god grinned...this would surely raise the income for his Familia.
"I thank you for protecting me, Smith."
"Not for that, Saint."
Except for Argonaut and Fina, no character in the play had a name, they were named after their roles. Hermes said it would be too bothersome to give them all names...and that it was a kind of unique way to call them like that.
More than ever before, Amid looked like a true Saint...well she was a Saint...but now she looked even more like one. It took a long time for Hermes that Amid agreed to her outfit...Dian Cecht also begged her...and she could hardly decline a request from her god. Only a tiny part of her mind hoped she would maybe get the attention of another god this way...even if he was married...Amid couldn´t fight her feelings for this handsome, black haired god.
Her feet were in golden sandals, with fine bindings halfway up to her knees. She wore no pants at all, around her waist was a golden belt, and her "dress" was more a very long tunic, with two white parts with blue borders, that covered around half of her legs in front and back. Whenever she made a step forward, her long, slender legs got fully visible.
Amid´s chest was covered by a same piece of cloak...which didn´t hid the curve of her breasts in any way. On her head she wore a long white veil, that let her face free but covered much of her hair, together with a long white cape and white sleeves, that weren´t connected to her dress...Amid surprisingly didn´t looked lewd in any way, even with showing so much skin...she looked like...a Saint.
Her Familia members that saw this outfit, said they felt healed just by seeing her. Dian Cecht was amazed and tried to convince Amid to wear this outfit after the play more often, they could make so much money if she could heal so many more people like that.
"Woah...you are...the Saint!"
Lefiya looked amazed at Amid.
"I am called that, yes."
"My eyes! If I would become blind right now, I wouldn´t regret it! What a beauty has appeared before my sore eyes!"
"Eh..."
Amid backed away slightly when Bell turned to her, with shining eyes.
"Don´t mind him!"
Lefiya put her left arm around Bell´s neck and pulled his head close to her chest, closing her other arm around his head and squeezed.
"But..."
Lefiya just continued to smile, while Bell whinced. "Don´t. Mind. Him."
"Understood..."
After Lefiya let Bell go, he rubbed his chin and got up.
"So anyway, you two are here to fight the demons too?"
"Yes, they attacked my village and destroyed my Forge...I can´t let that pass, I demand repair payments! And to punish them of course. The Saint was on her way to somewhere else when she saw the destruction."
"I decided to help the good Smith, the demons must be punished for their deeds." Amid nodded.
"Then we should join forces! I am the mighty hero, Argonaut! And this is my adorable, cute, sweet, beautiful, little sister, Fina!"
Hermes went with the records of Argonaut for making Bell´s character, it was said that this young hero had an eye for beautiful women...but no real luck.
"So you two want to go to the demon queens castle too?" Welf raised an eyebrow.
"We do, Smith."
"What do you say, Saint?"
"I have nothing against it."
"Allright then, nice to have you. I am the Smith and fight with my sword, the Saint here is good with healing magic and Saint stuff."
"I would preffer if you didn´t called it, Saint stuff." Amid looked unpleased.
"Sorry, sorry." Welf grinned.
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"And so the hero Argonaut advances on his journey to fight the demon queen, with now three companions at his side and with the power of the relics...will they stand a chance?"
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The mirrors showed the four walking, they got brighter and darker due to Hermes´ power, it let it look like they walked day and night. At first he wanted to let them jog like Bell and Lefiya did before, but Amid´s outfit didn´t allowed fast movements...or too much of her skin would get exposed for her taste.
At the same time, the inside of the demon queens chamber was seen, at first she walked left and right while the light changed more than one time, then she sat down on her throne again and growled...she looked angry.
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"This is it, the Demon Queens castle!"
The enormous castle towered before them, the point of view let it look even bigger than it was.
"Looks like the only way we have is over the bridge."
"We should proceed with caution." Amid didn´t had any weapons, she was busy holding her cape so it wouldn´t wave up too much.
"Ahm...big brother?"
"Yes, Fina?"
"I think...those two over there...won´t let us..."
Two figures awaited them, one a bit smaller than the other, but more than twice as wide. It was hard to recognize Gareth, he wore a full body armor, in a bronze color, plates over plates over plates covered his body, his helmet looked like a roaring lion, in his hands he held a hammer with a head at least as big as Gareth´s whole body.
Next to him leaned a barely clothed amazoness...who was more cute than sexy in her outfit. Tiona had a tiny horn attached to her forehead, a chest band with a tiger pattern, very short shorts and trouser legs in the same pattern, the trouser legs were not connected to the pants. She held a giant club in her right hand, made from a dark iron with bright, yellow nubs in between.
The Gate Warden and the Oni.
"Hehe, you came a long way, hero and friends...but you can´t pass the bridge, not while we are here!"
Tiona showed them a smug grin and made a step forward, Gareth at her side raised the hammer with both hands and said nothing, his character didn´t had any lines.
"You plan to stop us?!"
"Of course we do, hero, this is our job. You came without an invitation."
"So is it possible to get an invitation?"
"Of course not, except our Queen knows about you...which I doubt."
"How rude of you! I am the great hero Argonaut!"
"...So?..."
Tiona whirled her weapon plafully around.
Bell looked shocked. "Y-You don´t know me?!"
"No...should I? Oh wait...hey you there with the silver hair...you are the Saint, correct? And you with the fiery red hair are the rumored Smith...and if I am correct, you are the magical genius elf, Fina."
All three nodded.
"It is nice of you heroes to bring this boy with you to let him "help" you to fight."
Bell looked more and more shocked, the audience chuckled.
"Y-You dare to make fun of me? The mighty Argonaut?!"
"Argonaut...Argonaut...wait...that rings a bell...somewhere...oh right! Aren´t you the wandering Clown?"
Bell threw himself into a heroic pose as he drew his sword. "We will strike you down, vile fiends!"
Tiona grinned wide. "Come get some!"
For the fight itself, they didn´t had much orders, Amid was supposed to stay back, Lefiya in the middle between the front line and Amid, while Bell and Welf would take the front line. Only two specific situations had to happen, but aside from that, they were free to fight how they liked.
Tiona and Gareth were allowed to go all out against Bell, they only should hold back against Welf a bit.
"Uuuuuuhn..."
Gareth raised his hammer and pointed at Welf, Tiona wanted to fight against Bell so badly that he let her.
"Sooooo, if you are the hero, then prove it!"
Tiona ran forward and swung her giant club left and right, while grinning happily. It was rare for a trainings fight that she was allowed to really go all out. Her club came down from above, the strike was strong enough to knock out even a level five adventurer with one hit, Bell went down to one knee and blocked with his sword.
He didn´t needed to go down, but he wanted to make a good show. Tiona kicked up her right foot, aiming for Bell's face. He hastily jumped backwards, dragging his sword with him. From the side he heard the clang of weapons, but didn´t had time to look how Welf fought with Gareth.
Lefiya stood a bit away and had a magic circle under her feet, she wasn´t supposed to finish her magic, just to bring a spell close to be finished, then cancel it and start anew, it was supposed to look like a very long chant.
"Take that!"
Bell thrusted his sword forward and graced Tiona´s shoulder a bit, while ripping away a small part of her chest-band. He didn´t intended to hit her clothes, but he knew her body wouldn´t take damage from his attack.
"Right back at you!"
Her club exploded upwards in a fast movement and it looked like she graced Bell´s chin, while he was thrown back.
"Buha!"
"Big Brother!"
"I´m fine, Fina!"
Bell jumped back to his feet and dashed forward, raising his sword high above his head. When his sword came down, Tiona really went down on one knee to block it, the difference between level six and seven was immense.
But he noticed the usual grin on her face, she had fun. Tiona´s right foot shot forward and kicked against the side of Bell´s head. While he backed away to the side, Tiona followed him and swung her club happily, each swing was filled with her enormous strength. Her weapon was enhanced, more to survive her own attacks than the clash with other weapons.
Bell spread his legs fast as the club came down, crushing into the bridge...he managed to escape by a hair's breadth...it was very close...
Tiona mumbled so quietly, that only Bell heard her and not the audience.
"Woops...sorry...wasn´t my intention...don´t want Ais to get mad when you...lose something."
Hiiiii!
Bell´s nature took over and he rolled backwards, splinters of wood flew around as Tiona ripped her weapon free and followed him.
"D-Don´t get cocky, demon!"
"Come on, hero! Show me what you can do! Also I´m not a demon, I am an Oni!"
Their weapons clashed together, sparks flew through the air again. Tiona wasn´t limited to her weapon, she let go with one of her hands and punched directly at Bell´s face, he leaned back and tried to evade, she was supposed to be stronger than him...until a certain moment.
"Is there a difference?!"
"A big difference! Demons have two horns! I only have one!"
"And the other differences?!"
"Beat me and I tell you!"
While Tiona and Bell exchanged heavy strikes, Gareth glanced under his helmet to Bell, while he made a spectacle in attacking Welf and blocking the sword. For Welf that was no fun, even when Gareth held back...he also tried to hold Ursu back, but she came out anyway...but her flames also were no threat for Gareth.
You´re doing good, boy.
Gareth really liked Bell, actually nearly the whole Familia liked him very much, but the high executives especially. It sounded strange, but they liked him for loving their princess and that she loved him. Ais wanted to become stronger and stronger more than anyone else, while that was a good thing, she got too absorbed in it.
She just cared about pursuing more strength and while she got stronger and stronger, she started to reach a place were nobody else could reach, she was about to walk away by herself...then Bell happened. Even her friends were worried about Ais, but her trauma sat too deep in her, got too strong...how she called it...the black flame rose.
Then...Bell happened. Over time he helped her to open up more, to her friends, her Familia, even other people. Riveria, Finn, Loki and Gareth were sure, it was Bell who saved Ais´ life...saved her from falling into a different kind of darkness. And now they had reached Level seven together...but Ais was different from the past. She was the strongest of the Familia now...but she didn´t felt far away.
The others thought similar, Tiona and Tione could be more open with their feelings and thanked Bell directly for saving Ais, he never fully understood how close it was for Ais. And not only Ais, he had rescued Lefiya too...in fact he had saved the whole Loki Familia. Not only with his help in Knossos...if he wouldn´t had been there, Ais would probably have fallen to her dark flame. Gareth had thought for a while what might had happened, maybe Ais would get hurt...would more turn to the inside.
The mood in the Familia would get worse...Lefiya probably heartbroken to see her like this, at some point even Tiona might have stopped smiling... Various things might have happened due to this...the Loki Familia could have be destroyed from internal problems.
So...
Thank you, boy.
Welf fought for his life, Gareth got so distracted in his thoughts that he used more strength than intended. And during the event with the Xenos, Welf already knew that Gareth was a true monster...and now he was even stronger! Even at level four and with Ursu´s help...he barely managed to escape or block.
"Ursuuuu! Do something!"
"Rrriiiiiii!"
He didn´t knew what that sound was...but it looked like even the spirit was crying from fear because of Gareth. Ursu unleashed a wave of fire towards Gareth, enveloping him completely...and he just burst out of the flame and chased the unlucky duo...while he still was thinking about the past and how lucky they were to have Bell.
The Loki Familia loved their training fights...so many of them tended to get too absorbed into it. The whole stageplay was an excellent chance for them to train and go all out. The audience laughed while they watche the poor Welf and the crying Ursu running for their lives, Gareth´s hammer smashed parts out of the bridge or stones from the side when he missed him again.
A bit away on the bridge, Tiona jumped up, her left leg stretched out behind her, the right pulled close as if she wanted to land on her foot, the club raised with both hands. The weapon came down like the hammer of Thor, despite having a higher status than Tiona, Bell was a human and she an amazoness, she had more natural strength, so even he had to be carefull now.
The bridge under Bell cracked when he countered the attack, Hermes had warned them that their environment wasn´t meant for such strong adventurers to fight.
A ray of golden light shot out of Lefiya´s left hand and smashed into Gareth´s hammer, breaking his balance for a moment. A second ray shot towards Tiona to distract her.
It was a signal to the first situation that had to happen.
"Gate Warden! Let´s take down the Elf!"
"Uuuuhn!"
The eyes of Argonaut widened in shock as the Gate Warden stopped in his chase of the Smith and turned to his little sister, starting to run towards her. Raising her club, the Oni came from the other side, they intended to take her down.
Argonaut ran faster than his opponents, towards his frightened sister.
"Fina!"
"Big brother!"
The Gate Warden´s hammer came from the right side, the Oni´s club from the left, they would smash every bone in her body.
Gasping collectively, the audience watched how the weapons got closer.
The Saint had to cover her face from the sudden gust of wind as the weapons collided with something. Fina had crouched down when someone pushed her and covered her head with her hands, now she glanced up and could only stare with an open mouth in shock.
Her brother stood over her, teeth gritted and...he had stopped both weapons with his bare hands. His right palm stopped the enormous hammer from the Gate Warden, his left the club of the Oni.
Both had attacked with their full strength...and he had stopped them.
"Hands. Off. My. little. Sister."
This was the moment that let Lefiya call Bell her big brother in the future sometimes too...mostly as a joke, at least it seemed to be one.
"Such...strength! Impossible!"
"Uuuuhn!"
Bell used the momentum to shove Gareth backwards...the old dwarf was shocked how strong Bell really was. When he had his right hand free, Bell made a fist, apologized in his mind and punched Tiona right into her stomach.
"Buhärgh!"
He didn't need to have a guilty conscience, Tiona was the one that told him before the play, he should attack with his full strength. She folded forward and fell to the bridge, of course she wasn´t defeated from just that, but it should look like it.
Gareth staggered back and found his balance back, he stood with his back towards the gate. Now came the second situation...and while he was told what would happen...Gareth was not prepared...since he thought it would be something entirely else.
Bell was supposed to fire a spell at him, smashing him through the prepared gate.
But Gareth thought Bell would use his firebolt...
Bell stood there, raised his right arm, his palm pointed at Gareth, his eyes half closed. The old dwarf got goosebumps...something about this moment looked way, way, way too familiar for him!
It can´t be! NO WAY!
When Bell activated his chant, he sounded too calm...which frightened Gareth even more.
"Argo..."
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A moment flashed before Gareth´s eyes...a moment from the past in Orario, from an intense battle against Evilus...from his battle against a certain, female mage...with silver hair. She wore a goth-style, black dress, her eyes were nearly completely closed, her expression calm as she raised her right hand. This woman had the exact same posture as Bell...or rather the other way around.
He rememberred her voice all too well.
"Satanas..."
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The flashback ended...Gareth saw it clearly before his widened eyes. A female figure, nearly transparent stood behind Bell, they had their right arms raised and exact the same posture...it looked as if she was casting together with him...or...supporting him. Her lips twitched a tiny bit...as if...she was happy...or...proud?
Gareth didn´t even had time to shout.
Both chanted together, Bell yelled while the woman spoke calmly, Bell´s voice in his ears...the woman´s voice in his head and memory.
""Verion!""
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With the sound of a thunderclap, a massiv wave...or block of sound smashed forward, let a part of the bridge and stones on the side explode, before smashing into Gareth. He got catapulted into the prepared gate, which also smashed to pieces and he flew further backwards.
Splinters and debris flew everywhere, the dwarf's armored body flew further than intended...right onto a very unfortunate succubus..
"Kyaun!"
The people in the audience shivered when they saw Tione getting hit by Gareth, like he was a catapult projectile. She got hit by his full weight, only increased through the armor...and ended between him and a wall.
Not even she could bear with that and so Bell accidentely knocked her out too. It was a good thing, that Gareth had actually three pendants and protective gems in his armor, so he didn´t got hurt.
He groaned while he lied there...the gate was open now.
Why does...he have...hers...Silence´s...magic...
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Act II got closed faster than they had thought...but it was truly epic...
Yet, the use of this magic would lead to something else later...and Bell Cranel would shed many tears because of that.
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Authors Note: For information, in the Argonaut story, the spirit that was saved by Crozzo, her name was Ursu. Just got the idea she might return to him in a way. *wink*
Thanks to isaha367, I made a mistake with the haircolor of Alfia.