Chapter.5

Vincent awoke in the real world and felt all of his battle wounds at once, he fell to the floor holding his sides. Catherine awoke as well, see stood up to see Vincent. "Not feeling well?" Catherine kneeled down and placed her hand on Vincent's cheek. "You're feeling the phantom pain right now. If it hurt this much you must've gotten your ass kick hard!"

Vincent gritted his teeth and shoved her hand away. Vincent tried to push himself but fell from the pain. "Look Vin, this tough guy act won't get you much help. Now before you tell me, 'I don't need your help.' how about you say that when you can stand up." Catherine pulled Vincent's arm over her shoulders and lifted him up. "So how badly did you lose?"

"I didn't."

"So you chose to quit." Catherine opened the door and help Vincent walk out. "Then how many did you beat?"

"Six."

"That many?" Catherine smiled proudly. "I knew I pick a good one. Want to know how many I beat?"

"No."

Catherine sighed. "You're no fun. How do you plan to get a girlfriend like this?" Vincent kept quiet as they left the library. Outside Vincent pulled his arm away to stand on his own. "How do you feel?"

"I'm fine." Vincent took a few steps but could just barely stand.

"Yeah, I can see that. Come on, let's go get some lunch." Catherine grabbed Vincent's arm but he pulled it way, causing him to fall. Catherine placed her hands on her hips. "Are you always going to be like this?"

Catherine lead Vincent to a small restaurant a few blocks away from the library. Inside Catherine ordered sandwiches and water, taking them to Vincent. "Feeling better?" Vincent continued to stare out the window. Catherine waved her hand to open systems, after away she found the statistics from the fight for territory. "You're first day and already had quite the impact for the opal legion."

Vincent kept quiet and started eating his sandwich, Catherine sighed then drank some water. When Vincent was half finished with his food he glanced to Catherine who was busy typing. A few seconds later she finished then closed everything.

"Did I tell you about the leaders of the legions?"

"No."

"Okay then." The world broke apart around Vincent as brain burst started up.

Vincent stood in a world made of ice, He drew his sword to spot an orange avatar, armed with several bombs and a grenade launcher for their right hand. Vincent checked the avatar's name. Amber Demolition.

"So you're the new guy for opal?"

Vincent fired his blaster at the avatar as he rushed them. Amber pulled a bomb off their belt and threw it down to create a smoke cloud. Vincent stepped back with his blaster pointed at the cloud.

A grenade flew out of the smoke and fell towards Vincent. When it did the ground the grenade exploded, throwing Vincent back. Vincent pushed himself and saw his legs were blown off.

Another grenade flew out of the smoke. "Charge Shot!" Vincent held out his arm and fired a large beam to destroy the grenade.

As the smoke faded Amber Demolition slowly walked towards Vincent. Vincent held out his arm, pointing his blaster at his enemy. "That all you got?"

Vincent kept an eye on his blaster's cooldown. "Let's see you do six fights in a row and still be able to fight."

"Try ten." Amber fired another grenade.

Vincent drew his sword and hurled it at the grenade. The sword missed and Vincent held out his left hand to catch the grenade which exploded on impact and blew away his arm. Vincent fired his blaster as Amber threw down another smoke bomb. Vincent fired into the smoke until his blaster overheated again but Amber Demolition's health didn't take a hit.

Vincent lead on the ground as Amber walked out of the smoke and aimed his weapon at Vincent's head. "Honestly, I expected more."

"Do it." Amber Demolition fired and destroyed Vincent.

Vincent was pulled back to the real world and all of his pain had returned. "You okay?" Asked Catherine.

"What was that? You said I can refuse fights!"

"Only if we're in our legion's zone."

Vincent pulled up brain burst and checked the map. He was in the amber legion's area. "You brought me here?!"

"Oops." Catherine covered her grin.

The world fell apart as Vincent entered brain burst once more. His body was sore and jolts of pan rush through his limbs when he moved. A blue avatar armed with a halberd charged Vincent, who drew his sword and swung it to deflect the halberd. Vincent's arms grew weak and dropped it do to the pain. The avatar's halberd came down on Vincent's head splitting it in two.

Vincent was pulled back into the real world, his headache had gotten worse.

"Lost another one?" Asked Catherine.

Vincent stood up and ran out the door. His body was aching, causing him to slow down. Vincent kept his map up to know when he was safely back in the opal legion. He was almost there when he was pulled back into the bairn burst. Vincent fell to his knees, his vision was blurred, all he saw was something red fallowed by a bang and a bullet through his chest.

Vincent fell to the ground as his body refusing to move. The red avatar stood over Vincent and pressed their gun to the the tyrant's head before pulling the trigger.

Returning to the real world Vincent fell to the ground, the pain was starting to make him feel sick. Vincent pushed himself back up and ran a few feet before he legs gave out and he fell again. Looking at his map Vincent was back in his legion. Vincent crawled to a the side of a building and laid against it as he waited for everything to stop spinning, his pain had subsided and Vincent stood up and slowly made his way home, needing to take several stops to rest from headaches.

It was past noon when Vincent returned home, he opened the door and was greeted Elizabeth. "Hey bro!"

"Not now Liz, I have a bad headache." Vincent went to the bathroom to get some medicine.

"So how was your day?"

"Painful." Vincent swallowed the pills with some water. "Catherine wanted to meet." Thinking about Catherine was getting Vincnet angry which was making his headache worse.

"Catherine? you're seeing someone?!"

Vincent slammed his fists on the sink and spun to Elizabeth. "No! I'm going to bed." Vincent went up the stairs and to his room, laying on his bed Vincent opened brain burst and found a history of opponents he fought. "Tomorrow." He closed his eyes and fell asleep, dreaming of revenge.

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