Chapter. 9

Saturday arrived and the territory battles were about to begin. In the opal palace Catherine walked through the lobby, passing several other players as they made teams and talked about what strategies to use.

Catherine opened a menu to summon a door, stepping inside she found Vincent alone in a blank room, standing over a map of the amber legion. Catherine pressed a few buttons and glasses of wine appeared in her hands. "How's my little warrior doing?" Catherine offered a glass to Vincent.

Vincent kept quiet as he brought up an image of Amber Demolition. "You're planning to fight him again? Well no doubt you've made this personal." Catherine drank one of the glasses of wine in one shot then tossed the glass away. "Good. Make it personal! Let the anger guide you, make you unstoppable."

An alarm popped up in Catherine's view, telling her the time. "Ten minutes before it starts. Do you're best." Catherine drank the second glass of wine, after throwing it aside Catherine rested her hands on Vincent's shoulder and whispered into his ear. "If you make it past six opponents I'll let you have one date with me."

"Get off me!" Vincent shook Catherine off then turned to her. "Stay away from me. Fucking harpy." Vincent turned back to the image.

Catherine shrugged and walked to the exit. "Fine. Your loss."

Once Catherine was gone took a long, slow breath. "Breath in, focus, let's put an end to this Amber." Vincent removed the image and closed his eyes, remembering each of his fights with Amber Demolition. Vincent heard a beep, he saw a menu asking him about the territory battles. Vincent left his settings to one on one and waited for the first fight.

The world shifted to an open wasteland. Vincent looked around but found nothing big enough to fully hide behind. "Shit. No cover. I'll need to keep moving." Vincent heard a shot and ran. diving to the dirt with an explosion behind him. Vincent stood up to see Amber Demolition firing again. "Already? Guess luck favors me today." Vincent rush to attack, Amber fired another grenade but Vincent kept running as he watched the grenade.

As the grenade got closer Vincent stopped as change direction. Running to his left he jumped as the grenade landed, pushing Vincent from the force of the blasted. Vincent landed on his feet and rolled to steady himself then keep running without losing motion. "Two."

Amber shot three more grenades, one aimed to land in front of Vincent while the other two were to land on both sides of him. Vincent stopped running and started hopping back, away from the blasts. The grenades landed and the combined force pushed Vincent even further back.

Vincent curled up his body as he landed, hitting the ground on his hands and feet and sliding back. "Five." Vincent stood up and kept running.

Amber started walking backwards and took a more careful aim. Waiting for Vincent to get closer then fire. With the grenade coming right at him. Vincent dropped to his and leaned back to let the grenade fly over him the leaned forward, stay as close to the ground as he could to hold his ground from the explosion. "Six. All out." Vincent grinned, he stood up and fired his blaster at Amber as he stood up once more.

After each shot missed Amber pulled a smoke bomb of his belt raising the bomb to throw it down. As it hit the ground Vincent ran into the smoke and tackled Amber Demolition, pushing him out of the smoke cloud and threw him to the ground.

Vincent stood over Amber demolition and punched him repeatedly in the face. Amber reached up and grabbed on of Vincent's arms but the tyrant kept punching with his free hand.

Amber struke Vincent in the head with his grenade launcher arm to get him off then sat up to reload the launcher. Vincent fell into the dirt and fired three beams from his blaster. Two shots flew by Amber's head while the third hit him in the chest. As Amber was stumbling sat up and drew his, throwing his sheath at Amber to buy more time.

Amber slapped the sheath away and saw Vincent lunging at him with his sword pointed out. On instinct Amber held out his hand and the sword pierced through and cut into half of Amber's arm.

Amber screamed in agony and Vincent quickly silenced him with a punch the the face. Vincent was over Amber once again and punched him again, now cracking the mask. Amber swung his grenade launcher again, this time Vincent held up his arm to block, taking only light damage as he kept punching with his free arm. Amber swung his other arm and hit Vincent in the ribs with the sword handle sticking out of his hand.

The hit caused Vincent to flinch and loosen his arm pressed against the grenade launcher which Amber used to knock Vincent off of him. Amber stood up then aimed the weapon at Vincent as he backed away. "Dodge this bitch!" Amber fired but the grenade launcher only made a click sound.

Vincent sat up his knees and held out his blaster. "Okay, now dodge this." Vincent shot a laser at Amber, hitting him in the chest as he pushed himself to his feet. Amber flicked his launcher chamber open then reached for more grenades on his belt but couldn't get any because of the sword lodged through his arm.

Amber tried hitting the sword to knock it out but it was only cutting more into his arm, causing chip damage. Amber turned to run then Vincent shot him in the leg. Vincet kept shooting as he walked towards Amber, putting spaces between his spots to avoid heat build up.

Amber turned on his back and held his hand out. "Stop! Wait, wait, just please wait!" Vincent stood over Amber Demolition with blaster pointed at his heart. "It may not seem like it but our back and farther for the past week, it's been draining my points." Vincent stood silently, unmoving. "I don't have the points to lose this fight. You kill me now I'll lose Brain Burst! I need this game and the power it gives! Please I'm begging you-"

"Charge Shot." Vincent fired a concentrated beam into Amber's chest the moved his arm to cut him in half with the beam. Amber Demolition's heath dropped to zero and his body faded away.

The world fell apart as Vincent was carried back to the lobby in the opal palace. The other members of the legion stood around, asking what happened. A message appear in front of Vincent, telling him to take the lift to the war room.

Vincent stepped into the lift and looked down to see everyone looking at him as he rode up. The lift doors open and Vincent stepped into the war, finding only Catherine and Opal Commander waiting for him. Past them was a map of the legion territories with the amber legion missing. Now covered in the opal legion's color.

Opal Commander placed her hand on Vincent's back. "Come with us."

"Where are you taking me?" Vincent shook her off.

Opal Commander pointed to where the amber legion was on the map. "I watched your fight with Amber Demolition. You defeated the legion leader, ended the Amber legion, and now the territory belongs to the opal legion. " Opal returned her hand to Vincent's back as she stood beside him. "And we have you to thank. A hero in our dark hour of need. come let us let the legion know of your success."

Opal Commander stood on a balcony with Vincent over looking the lobby. Opal pulled up a menu to create large screens around the lobby for everyone to see her then turned up her volume. "Members of the opal legion. If you all are wondering what has happened. The amber legion has been defeated. By this brave warrior." Opal steps back and gently pushes Vincent to step forward.

"The hero we owe this victory too. Eminence Tyrant!" The entire legion clapped and cheered for Vincent.

Feeling the glory coming from the legion Vincent held up his fist and nods his head lightly while grinning. "About time I got the respect I deserve."

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