Chapter. 16
It was late afternoon when Vincent and Rebecca walked out of Rebecca's home Vincent climbed onto his bike and picked up one of his helmets. "Thank you Vincent. I like the burger and the movie suggestions. I had fun with you today."
"Anytime Rebecca, I-" Rebecca leaned forward and held Vincent in a tight hug. Vincent smiled lightly and patted her back. "Anytime Rebecca." Vincent lowered his arms as Rebecca let go. "Call me for anything you need."
"Okay!" Vincent nods and he put on his helmet and drove to his own home. Once he left and was out of sight Rebecca waved her hand and started writing.
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Returning to his house Vincent parked his bike in the garage and went inside. The house was empty to Vincent surprise, he shrugged as he went up stairs to his room. Stepping inside the world stopped and took on a blue tint. "What?" The world melted around him and turned into a field of magma. "What happened? No one should be able to challenge me here?"
"Tyrant!" Vincent spun around to see Sapphire Brawler with dozens of avatars around him in the spectates area. "Funny seeing you again, isn't it?"
"What's going on?!" Vincent drew his sword.
"You think you can destroy a whole legion and get away with it? It's time for you to pay for your actions!"
A blue avatar ran up to Vincent with a great sword. The avatar raised the sword and cut Vincent in half. Vincent sidestepped the blade and cut off the avatar's hands then followed with slicing off their head.
With the fight over the world returned to normal then turned blue instantly, changing to an open arena in the sky. Vincent drew his sword again as a green avatar ran at him with a large tower shield. Vincent struke the shield with his sword but was immediately pushed back. Vincent glanced behind him to see he was being shoved to the edge. Vincent leaped out the way but as he stood up the avatar bashed him down with their shield.
The avatar grabbed Vincent by the leg and dragged him to the edge. Vincent raise his blaster to shoot by the avatar barely flinched from the shots. He swung his sword by the shield was in the way. As the got closer Vincent glanced at his leg. "This is gonna hurt." Vincent swung his sword, this time cutting off his own leg. The avatar staggered at the loss of weight it was dragging and saw what happened.
"That hurt! That hurt!" Vincent writhed on the ground in pain as he slammed his fist into the dirt. The avatar grabbed Vincent's other leg as the Tyrant turned to them. "Royal Cut!" Vincent threw his sword into the avatar's head. "Blaster, Beam!" Vincent's blaster beeps as its firing setting changed, the weapon was training on the green avatar's chest and fired a continues beam of orange light. The weapon overheated but it burned a hole through the enemy's chest, causing them to fall back.
The fight was over and Vincent breathed a sigh of relief, by was quickly ruined as the world returned to normal and again instantly changed to another battlefield, this time on a cliff over looking the sea. Vincent drew his sword but fell to one knee. "Damn it! That escape is gonna cost me. How is this happening?"
"Are you still not getting it? Shouted Sapphire Brawler. "Maybe after this you'll get it." An image appeared before him, it was of the LA Brain Burst territory map with on area circled in red. His home territory was blue.
"No... How-" Vincent was kicked in the face by a yellow avatar. He stayed down as the avatar got closer. They kicked away his sword and grabbed him by the neck, Vincent quickly raised his fist and punched the avatar in the chest, his blaster fired a beam to pierce through their body.
The world returned to normal then changed again to another arena. With each fight the pain from all the previous fights were reemerged, making Vincent weaker for every fight.
With each attack Vincent was losing strength and started losing his fights until each encounter became less of a fight and more of a beating.
Vincent's breath was ragged from the collective pain. Every fight was making him worse for the next. He barely had the strength to stand when he saw the name of his next opponent.
Sapphire Brawler stood before him and cracked his knuckles. "Time for a personally beat down."
"So this was your plan? Make the legion fight your battle for you?"
"I could easily take you down and out Tyrant. I just did this morning. Amber was a close friend of mine and now that you took Brain Burst from him... I'd be wrong to not let the former amber members of my legion get a change to get even."
Sapphire Brawler punched Vincent in the face to sent him flying back. Vincent tried to stand up and was struke again, throwing him further away and sliding along the ground to chip away at his health.
Sapphire stood over Vincent as he pushed himself up. He raise his fist and punched Vincent in the back then kicked him over. Vincent rose up on one knee with hand over his chest. "If this is what makes you feel powerful. Then you're truly the weakest."
Sapphire lifted Vincent up over head and then hurled into the concrete wall, breaking through it. Vincent entire body ached, his mind couldn't focus. He looked at his health see only a sliver remained.
"This is the best opal has to offer?!" Sapphire Brawler raises his arms to the everyone watching. "This player may have dethroned Amber but is defiantly not one of the opal's elites!" Sapphire lowered his arms and turned to Vincent. "Seems Teal Assassin's Intel was off the mark."
Realization washed over Vincent as everything fell into place. Teal Assassin told them he would be here. Catherine told them he would be here. Vincent was in this mess because of Catherine. He had a week long feud with Amber Demotion because Catherine lead him into their region. All of the pain and headaches from Brain Burst were came from Catherine giving him this game.
"Catherine. Catherine. Catherine. Catherine." Vincent repeated to himself. He pushed himself up but barely raised from the ground before he fell again. "Everything. Everything is... Catherine." Anger started to bubble within him. He tried again to push himself up, he rose to his knees and grabbed his sword. "I WILL get out of this. I WILL kill Sapphire Brawler. I WILL find Catherine." Vincent rose up on his feet and used his sword to keep himself standing. "AND I WILL MAKE YOU PAY!"
Sapphire Brawler turned back to Vincent. "You're still conscious?" Sapphire struke his fists together. "Good. Maybe Teal wasn't fully wrong."
Hearing Teal again Vincent's body twitched and he snapped, in that moment his anger over took him and became unrestrained rage. He forgot about the pain in his body and limped towards Sapphire Brawler, then walked, then ran, full out sprint.
Sapphire ran to meet Vincent, the Tyrant swung his sword and Sapphire held up his arm to block. Vincent's sword sliced through Sapphire's arm with ease. "What?!" Sapphire stepped back as he held his severed arm.
Vincent ducked and cut off Sapphire's leg. As he fell Vincent hold out his blaster and fired into the Brawler's face as he lunged his sword into sapphire's chest, twisted the blade and sliced though the body, spilling blood and metal.
Sapphire feeling the dirt as he screamed in agony but Vincent didn't listen. Sapphire Brawler started to speak but Vincent couldn't hear him, all he could hear was a loud ringing in his ears, all he could see was red. Vincent thrusted his blade into sapphire's remaining hand and aimed his blaster at Brawlers head. "CHARGE SHOT!" A giant beam emerged from the blaster, larger then normal then disintegrated Sapphire's upper body and made a tunnel in the ground.
The battle was over and world shifted back to normal. Vincent fell to his knees as the phantom pain caught up to him and his senses returned to him. "What happened? I..." Vincent lost control of his body and fell to the floor. "I was fighting... Sapphire... Teal... Catherine..." Vincent's eyes grew heavy, his mind was exhausted. Unable to move he passed out on his floor.
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