Chapter. 27

Charging through the emerald legion's territory Vincent pushed into the ruby's. He fulled up into a shopping center's parking lot and turned on his linker. "I'm right here you ruby fucks. Come get me."

Not even a minute passed when Vincent was attacked. The world reshaped into a graveyard and a red avatar stood in his way. "A red, clearly."

"What are you doing here opal?" The red avatar held up a rifle, aimed at Vincent's head.

Vincent held up his blaster and focused his incarnate power into it. "Cleanse." A massive beam struke into the avatar and took half their health, sending them to the ground before it stopped. The avatar raised their rifle and Vincent sliced off their hand then stepped on their chest. "You're leader, who and where are they?"

"Fuck you!"

Vincent plunged his sword into the avatar's hand. "Talk fuck wit! Give me a name!" Vincent twisted his blade.

"Ruby Dragoon!"

Vincent pulled his sword out. "Good. Now where is Ruby Dragoon?" The avatar remained quiet. "Fine. A name is a good start." Vincent held out his blaster and shot them trough the head.

Back in the real world Vincent pulled up a list of players in the area. He slowly scrolled though it when he was attacked again. Turning the world into one of ruin. A blue avatar with a club rushed at Vincent, he drew his sword to catch the attack. "Ruby Dragoon. Where are they?"

"Why do you want to know?"

"I'm here to talk, that's it."

"No one just 'talks' to Ruby Dragoon."

"Then I'll have a 'quote' talk with them. So tell me where I can find your leader?"

"Over my dead body!"

"Fair enough. Royal Cut!" Vincent's blade cut though the club then into the avatar. They staggered back and Vincent kicked them down, followed by cutting off their arms. "Ruby Dragoon. Where are they?"

"I'm not saying anything." Vincent stabbed the avatar in the chest. Twisting the blade around to widening the wound. "Fuck you!" Vincent lifted his sword to stab them in the neck to end it.

Vincent returned to the real world and went back to scrolling the player list. "Found you." Vincent spotted the name and pressed it to offer a challenge, which was accepted in a few seconds.

Vincent arrived in an ice stage with biting cold winds. "You been looking for me?" Before the Tyrant was the one he was searching for, Ruby Dragoon. The avatar was a blood red with folded metal rods on their back, a dragon's head was placed where their right hand should've been. "Been looking forward to meeting the guy who took down two legions."

"You met a player by the name of Prism Rose."

"That one with Teal Assassin. Nervous little girl but Teal really wanted her in."

"I want her out. I'm asking you to let Prism out of the ruby."

"So she can join the opal?"

"No. I don't want her in the politics, I just want to protect her."

"Prism is your girl?"

"She's my child."

"Okay." Ruby held out the dragon head to Vincent. "Kneel."

"What?"

"Kneel and ask again, maybe I'll let her go."

Vincent tightened his fists then let then relaxed. He let out a sigh then kneeled. "Please. I ask you to let Prism out of the ruby legion."

Ruby Dragoon chuckled then full on laughed. "Really? Opal's golden child in kneeling! This girl is that important to you?"

Vincent kept silent, he heard metal grinding and jumped to his right, dodging Ruby rushing at him. Ruby held the dragon head out at Vincent, the head opened its mouth and breathed fire on Vincent.

The tyrant was thrown down against the flames, melting the ice around him. The fire that stuck to his body melted more ice to create a small pond to put out the fire. "I hate any stage with water, ruins my fun of burning things." Vincent dove out of the way as Ruby hurled more fire at him. The tyrant shot a few laser beams at Ruby.

The rods on Ruby Dragoon's expanded to create a frame, fire erupted from the frame to create wings. The flames grew stronger and lifted Ruby into the air.

"So you can fly. Wonderful." Vincent shot more lasers but Ruby dodged each one. "Charge Shot!" Vincent put all of his special gauge in this attack, creating as large a beam as he could. Ruby moved to evade but attack clipped his wing and caused him to descend. Vincent slowly approached Ruby as his blaster cooled down.

Ruby Dragoon roughly landed on his feet and held out his right arm. "Kasai no arashi!" The dragon head opened and launched a massive fireball, Vincent crossed his arms when the fire hit its mark.

Vincent slid along the ice then crashed into a berg, the fire melted the ice to pour water on the flames. Vincent checked health to find only a small amount was left. Ruby Dragoon landed and walked to Vincent. "You got power friend." Ruby stood over Vincent and pointed his dragon head at him. "Too bad you're on the wrong side."

Vincent took a hold of his sword. "More power then you think." He drew his sword which held an orange shine and swung at Ruby Dragoon, slicing off the avatar's legs. Ruby fell then used his wings to fly away as Vincent stood up.

"What the hell was that?!" Ruby hurled more fire at Vincent.

Vincent swung his blade and a gust of wind rushed from the blade to push the flames back to Ruby. The fires washed over Ruby and drained his health. When the fires died Vincent held out his blaster. "Charge Shot!" Vincent fired a large beam at Ruby to knock him down to a sliver of health. Ruby's wings broke off then he fell to the ground, ruby looked to see Vincent stand over him then stab Ruby in the head to finish him.

Vincent returned to the real world, his entire body burned from the phantom pain. He opened his contacts to call Rebecca.

"Hello V!"

"Hey Reby. Listen, I spoke with the ruby leader. You should be able to leave it soon."

"Oh, thank you V." Rebecca's voice was subdued.

"You okay Reby? You sound upset."

"I'm fine, my parents called and said they can't be home today."

"Should I come over?"

"No. I want to be alone right now."

"Okay." Vincent felt a weight in his chest. "I'm just a call away if you need me. You're never a problem Reby. I want you to know that."

"Thank you V." The call went silent between the two until Rebecca hung up. Vincent turned off his linker to not be interrupted for his ride home.

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