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Sunlight beamed through tress within Virtua Forest lighting it up almost as if it was throwing a party of some kind, A gentle warm breeze blew threw, animals walking around scavenging any type of food it could find or water to drink, birds chirped and sung with many others with gentle of warmth of the sun beaming down on them.
"Man..Seeing a scenery like this, almost makes you forget that were even fighting to begin with." Cayde said as he and Histoire admired the view around them.
"Yes, the animals, birds, and the calming river flowing through here makes it all but peaceful. Honestly, I could possibly take a nap out here and bathe within natures beauty itself( ＾∇＾)!" The small tome breathed in the fresh smell of mother nature with another gentle breeze blowing threw the air.
Cayde eyes slightly widened from the tomes response, he half expected her to say like something like this but hearing her say it threw him off since not only a while ago was she a nervous wreck about coming out in the open.
"Heh, you got that right!", Cayde shrugged off the response not wanting to kill the mood.
But the mood was already killed with his cheeky reply making the small tome in his hoodie comically glare. "You sir have no right to be resting when you have loads of work that needs be done at home( ≧Д≦)!"
"Eh?!" Cayde took a surprised step back in shock but most of all fear, "Oh come on Histy, you know how tiring that gets." He whined only for the tome sigh in annoyance.
The small tome at this point, was honestly debating on whether she should lecture him or just full out hit him for saying such a lazy response to her directly without hesitation. She already had enough to deal with as is with him to begin with, and the more she thought about it the more she realized that he may just be a lost cause.
"Oh Cayde, what am I going to do with you?," She asked herself hopelessly,"We haven't even made it to our destination and I already fear we might lose our lives just by standing here.."The tome continued to whine with the teen sweat dropping with Oracles sudden doubts.
"I'm standing right here y'know." He said feeling a tad bit hurt by the Oracles comment.
"Hey! Stop right there!" Cayde glanced over his shoulder to see Alex running up next to him, resting his hands on his knees glaring up the blue haired. "W-What...the heck..how do you have..so much stamina?" He asked his "partner".
"Hm?" Cayde was a little thrown off by the question as he stuffed his hands into his pockets with cheeky grin, "Well being born with super speed and plenty of exercise, eating healthy and drinking Cola. It does wonders for the body!"
"Cola?", Alex asked sweat dropping at the idea of Cola being a "Healthy" beverage for the body.
"Yep!", He said popping the "P", "You may not know it, but when you eat a ton of food to the point you get full, you want all out right?" Alex slowly nodded,"That's where the Cola comes in to save the day! With all the mystical bubbles inside, it's letting you burp to your hearts content with not only satisfaction but with relief as you can feel all the weight you put on suddenly vanish!" He proudly finished saying getting only dumbfounded stares from everyone around him.
Alex honestly didn't know whether to agree with his weird explanation or yell at him for obvious stupidity for a sugary beverage help you lose weight.
"Hearing you make Cola sound like a everyday beverage makes me concerned not only for your physical health but your mental health as well." Alex bluntly said causing a vein to pop out the teens head.
"What was that freak show? You gotta problem with how I work?" Cayde asked angrily taking a step forward towards the shapeshifter.
In response to his violent threat a vein of his own popped on his forehead,"Yeah, and so if I do? What are you gonna magma breath? Bite me?", they butt heads with Alex finishing his insult as the two glared hard at each other with electricity in between them.
Having had enough of watching them argue for the once again, Histoire raised her small voice so duo can hear, "Both of that's enough!(*`д´*)" Histoire's sudden raise in voice scared the two out their glare down as they looked towards the small with fear. "You both are too old to be fighting like this! Why can't you act like responsible teenagers and stay on task!o(-`д´- ｡)"
"Sorry Histy/Miss Histoire." The two apologized. Glaring at the two teens, Histoire only sighed with disappoint, "It's alright you two, for now, let's just be on our way." She said looking down the road.
For most the walk it was silent, really the reason it was silent was because the two teens didn't want to upset the Oracle than what she already is now. Looking down to her, Cayde watched her from above to see what she would do next even though she couldn't much being in his hoodie anyways. Feeling as if someone was watching her, Histoire glanced above her only for Cayde to quickly look back to the road ahead of him making the small tome raise a brow with concern.
"Is something the matter?" She asked only for Cayde to quickly shake his head.
"Nope! Not a thing!"
A little bit of walking later and the team of four finally made to sight of where the individual was last seen. Scanning the area, Cayde and Alex looked around making sure that there wasn't any traps or monsters that would pop out at them while they began their investigation.
"I'm all clear over here!" Alex called out, Cayde replied with a "Me too!" in the distance, before regrouping once more.
"So, where do think they are? You don't think they just up and left do?"
Alex shook his head, "I highly doubt it. We spotted them a not even a day ago. They couldn't have left already unless something came up or maybe they did spot us."
Cayde tapped his foot irritated,"Great, we came out here for nothing. Fan-freaking-tastic.", Cayde crossed his arms. Croire suddenly appeared from behind Alex's neck and look around the area.
"Y'know, if I was some type of villan hoping to get the jump on someone, I would mostly definitely need a place of operations."
"So you mean they have a hide out somewhere?"
Histoire nodded, "Yes, they can't just randomly attack without some type plan first. If they didn't they would have attacked us already while were in our nations." Histoire too scanned the area in hopes of finding anything useful in their search, although her scanning was limited due to not leaving Cayde's side.
"So, where might it be?" Cayde asked walking in a random direction, "If isn't it here, why bother looking?"
"Because that's what they want us to think." Said Alex glancing at the blue haired,"They either wants us to believe their in another location to lure us into a trap or make us believe there isn't anything to begin with and let our guards down, giving them the time to strike with our backs turned."
Alex glanced over the area one more time in hopes of proving his statement, and by some luck he spotted a shadow figure hiding behind a tree in the distance, "Hey you!", Yelled Alex making the figure turn and run with Alex chasing after them. "Cayde!"
"Huh?" Cayde turned in the nick of time to see Alex disappear into another section of the forest, "What happened?"
"That's un-important right now. Alex, seems to have found them! Hurry after them(*ﾟﾛﾟ)!" Nodding in agreement, Cayde then ran off in the same direction Alex and the unknown figure was last seen.
Back with Alex he was closing in on the cloaked figure, jumping and dodging bushes and tree branches while yelling out to them, "Stop! You can't run forever, give up now!" He angrily said. The cloaked figure turned their head and stuck out their hand as a purple ball of darkness formed causing Alex to gasp as he barely dodged the sudden attack. "What the-?! Did you just..!?" Alex growled as he continued his assault.
"A determined one, hm?" The cloaked figure said as they cut a corner behind a tree with Alex not far behind. Turning the same corner, he turned only to find nothing but trees and more trees.
"What? But they were just here, did I lose them?" Alex asked worried but angry to himself for loosing the suspect.
He walked for about a min or two until he heard the sound of branch snapping behind, quickly turning behind he morphed his arm into Raptor Claws before swiping at nothing but air."Behind you fool." A dark light shinned behind the shapeshifter as he was only able to glance behind him seeing the figure holding the same dark ball of energy before they shot it at him causing a explosion and rising cloud of dust.
Following the Lastation Guardians scent, Cayde hopped from tree to tree before landing and running off with worry.
"Come on, where are you?" He asked before an explosion nearby seemed to have answered his question, "There!" He glared before turning and hurrying towards the sound of the explosion. Arriving on the scene, Cayde skid to halt looking at the cloud of dust with worry. "Alex, you there? Alex!"
"Over here brat." Snapping his head towards mysterious voice, the cloaked figure waved tauntingly, "You want me? Come and get me.", They said before turning running , Cayde grit his teeth in anger before chasing after them. "Hey get back here!"
Rushing after the hostile individual, Cayde dodged and weaved incoming tree's and bushes with cloak figure repeating the same attack pattern they did for Alex,"Eat this!" They shot an orb of dark energy only this time, however, Cayde was on his toes and swiftly dodged it with a glare.
"Your mine." He declared before running faster towards them causing the figure to gasp slightly before Cayde tackled them to the ground into an opening where no trees where anywhere to interfere."Ha! Gotcha-!" He was about to celebrate until a fist collided with his face knocking him off the figure with a grunt, "Ow!" He rubbed his cheek watching the cloaked menace stand.
"Well I must admit, that was a little unexpected but doesn't stop me from carrying out my plan." They said with the upmost confidence.
Cayde frowned,"I don't know who you are and I don't care what you do, but when you threaten my home your gonna regret it." Cayde returned to fist feet and got into a fighting stance.
"Oh? Not only do you dare approach me but you have no idea who I am?" The cloaked figure raised their arm, "Well it doesn't matter, you won't live long to know it after this!"
RRRROOOAAAARRRR
Cayde snapped his attention away from the figure, only to quickly jump out of the way from an incoming attack from above causing a dust cloud. Landing with ease, he quickly turned and ignited his hands with familiar blue flames while getting back into his fighting stance. As he was doing so he felt something shaking within his hoodie, drawing his concern before he remembered what could be causing it.
"Histoire, are you okay?!" The boy pulled back his hoodie to see the small tome shaking slightly with fear present in her eyes.
"Y-Y-Yes I am! Don't worry a-about me, just focus on beating that thing!" Histoire stated getting a nod from the teen, "Got it, but you might wanna hang on, okay? Things are gonna get ugly." He tucked her into a better but safer position in his hoodie giving her a front row view of the fight.
The dust cleared with whatever attacked them came into view, it was giant humanoid like turtle with light blueish green skin, sharp claws and spiky brown shell. Honestly it seemed rather fond spikes per say but non the less it was still a foe.
"A Grand Turtle? What the heck is it doing here? Dealing with those gumdrops we call Dogoo's is one thing but this is just plain ridiculous." Cayde returned to hisstnace and readied himself for the incoming fight, before glancing to the cloaked figure. "After I'm done with this guy your next!" He declared as the figure laughed.
"We'll see, that is if you make it out alive." The figure then suddenly ran away into a nearby cave, disappearing within the darkness.
"Great they got away." Cayde watched the figure disappear before Histoire's voice called out to him. "Cayde, look out!( ꒪Д꒪)ノ".
"Huh-Oh crap!" Cayde swiftly dodged and incoming swipe from the Grand Turtle, taking a few steps back to regain his balance and breath all together he exclaimed with shock, "How can someone as big as you move so fast?!" The Grand Turtle sweat dropped a bit by the boys sudden question. Wasn't he supposed to be used this?
"There's no time for dilly dallying Cayde, we must this monster as fast possible so we don't let that individual escape( ≧Д≦)!" Histoire yelled from within his hoodie.
"Got it!"
RRRROOOOAAARRR
The Grand Turtle once again charged towards the teen readying another attack, Cayde in response slowly started walking, before it turned into jog then a full on sprint with the Grand Turtle swinging it's arm down onto where the boy was last seen raising a dust cloud. Silence rung throughout the area with Grand Turtle moving it's arm back ready to examine it's work before Cayde appeared from below within the cloud of dust, launching a flaming fist towards the Grand Turtle's stomach.
The blow of the punch was strong enough to send the Grand Turtle flying onto it's shell, rocking back and forth like a baby in a cradle, before it turned getting back onto to it's feet. It roared before launching bubbles from within it's mouth, filling the area they were in with bubbles.
"Bubble blower, ey?" Cayde asked smirking. "Cool, let me show you something too." Cayde then inhaled air before launching his attack.
"Fire Dragon Roar!" A blast of flames erupted from the boys mouth destroying bubbles that were in and all around him away, the Grand Turtle took a step back in shock as the attack engulfed it causing it to roar in pain before it disappeared dropping it's loot, however, the attack itself was going disappearing within the forest before an explosion went off somewhere in the distance. "And all in days work." Cayde picked up his loot, before disappearing away into his inventory.
"Cayde, what was that?!∑(O_O；)" Histoire exclaimed in shock.
"What was what?", Cayde cocked a brow before realizing what she meant, "Oh you mean my attack? C'mon Histy, you've seen that attack hundreds of times there really isn't anything to be confused about."
"Not that! I mean what was that explosion?! It should only exploded somewhere in front of us, not far out( ꒪Д꒪)ノ!"
"Like I said that was my attack." He bluntly said.
"What?! You must be joking!? You completely overdid it!(´⊙o⊙`；)", Cayde amusedly scratched his head.
"Well, hey at least I got the job done!" Histoire once again gawked with the boy running in after the mysterious stranger.
Once in the cave, the boy noticed how smaller it looked compared to a normal dungeon. It still had it's paths, illuminated blue crystals and selected monsters but non the less seemed like a normal dungeon.
"Nothing looks out of the ordinary, seriously what gives? It just looks like any normal dungeon." Cayde frowned thinking they may have lost the mysterious villain.
"Don't let looks deceive you, it may look like an ordinary cave but strategical individuals like this one seems to have a few tricks up their sleeve so be wary(・_・ヾ."
Cayde grinned, "You got it!" Giving the tome a thumbs up he quickly ventured deeper in the dungeon after the cloaked menace.
"I can't believe that punk left me!" Alex yelled stomping next to his tome who only sighed in disappointment.
"And yet again you find a way to get your ass handed to you cause you never think ahead." Croire stated glancing at the young man. "Maybe if you actually use your head you wouldn't have gotten attacked like you did."
"Well, yeah that's true but you saved me, why?"
*Flashback*
"Behind you fool."
Alex's eyes widened in shock before he shut them in fear of the incoming attack, time slowed down with the dark energy slowly getting closer to him.
"Look out!" Suddenly a purple bubble like shield surrounded the boy making the attack come in contact with the shield instead of him with a explosion going off knocking him back with enough force into some trees. The explosion died down with Alex still within the shield before it slowly disappeared into little particles, Alex still resting on the ground breathed heavily from shock before slowly sitting up holding his chest.
"What..? How did..Croire?"
*Flashback end*
A shadow casted over the dark tomes eyes, before she raised her head once more shrugging. "Save you? What in your mind made you think I saved you? If anything I was saving myself you just so happened to be caught in the shield." She crossed her arms, turning her head causing the teen to sweat drop at her act of trying to be selfish.
"Still, thanks a lot Croire." Alex said with a warm smile, Croire only glanced behind her before saying, "Don't smile like that it's creepy."
"Huh?!" Alex glared with visble veins sprouting on his forehead.
"Relax will ya? Get anymore angry you'll be matching you hair color, then I'll really start calling you red head."
Before Alex could think of comeback, he suddenly tripped and slid down a small dirt hill. Surprised by the sudden loss in ground, Croire quickly floated down to him. "Whoa, you okay?"
"Yeah", Alex answered looking at his surroundings, "But, where the heck dd this crater come from? Did it come from the stranger?"
Croire shook her head, "No, this was caused by something else." Steam and burned patches of fire resonated from within the crater as Croire looked forward to where the crater possibly leads. "The crater itself is still fresh meaning whatever or "who"ever did it, must have just done not too long ago."
"Which also means whatever did it is still in the area." Alex stood back on his two feet as he too look down the path crater made.
"I say we follow whatever caused the attack to it's origin point, knowing where it came from might give us a clue to where that mysterious stranger went."
Alex put a hand to his chin in thought, "Hey, isn't this the way to Yukawa Ruins?"
"It would seems so, we are pretty deep in the forest after all." Croire acknowledged, "But enough chit-chat it's time get rollin'!"
With a nod the duo quickly made their way threw the crater, hoping the mysterious stranger hadn't got to far.
After defeating the Giant Turtle, the Planeptune duo made their way threw Yukawa Ruins. Stopping near the entrance after finally knowing where they were, they took a moment to evaluate their situation.
"Okay so First, I defeat a giant bubble blowing turtle and chase after the mysterious stranger only to then find a random monster dungeon that's completely off our map. Second, after running around not even kidding for 5 minutes straight with no leads, we arrive in Yukawa Ruins in the middle of the forest. Great. Just great. I say were making some great progress." Cayde cheerily but really sarcastically said with irritated tone.
"Yes that was indeed troublesome. Whoever thought we would have to do so much crawling", The small tone dusted herself off, "Especially in such a tight space!"
Cayde sweat dropped. "Well it's cave so of course they'll be tight spots here and there y'know. Besides I said you could get and crawl your ahead of me so you wouldn't have gotten smooshed."
"Are you crazy?! I would never dare to think of getting out of the one place that I know is safe to go venturing into damp, dark, and cold place where no could find me!" Histoire whined comical tears, "E-E-Especially t-the s-s-s-spid-d-ders!(っ*´□`)っ"
Cayde exhaustedly sighed at his caretakers childish act, "And here I thought I was the kid here.." He whispered to himself.
"Hm? Cayde did you here that?〈(゜。゜)" The tome asked leaning out the teens hoodie.
"Here what?"
"Monster cries." Cayde stopped his walking as the two sat in silence. A few seconds passed before a faint sound of a monster cry resounded throughout somewhere in the ruins. Did you hear it now?( ；´Д｀)" Cayde nodded.
"Yeah I did. You think this where they went?"
"It has to be. I after going through that literal maze back in the cave, I'm positive they must have escaped through here!(*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑" Cayde smiled at the Oracle's sudden determination.
"Right, let's get going!" He said giving her a thumbs up along with her returning the gesture.
Yukawa Ruins has been visited ever so often due to higher rank quest from adventures of higher status. The ruins was obviously abandoned with broken walls, ceilings, broken pillars, old vases and moss growing within the ruins from old age and without proper cleaning. Even with the busted down building it didn't stop Cayde from having fun, he started parkouring from platforms to pillars grabbing items and showing off every time he jumped from pillar threw another walkway going upward.
They arrived in another open area, on the second floor by the looks of things, with more pillars and mysterious purple blocks with coins all around the top of pillar.
"Alright hit the jackpot!" Cayde exclaimed happily before pulling out his phone and taking a picture of his finding, "Gonna add this one to log." He put his phone and got into a running position.
"Hang on Histy!" The tome gripped the rim of his hood before started running, then jumping onto the pillar instantly grabbing coins as they went into his inventory. "Don't you just love it when you find random money on the ground?" Cayde turned his head towards the imaginary audience. He picked up the all the floating coins, making them disappear and go into his inventory before he stopped under the purple block.
"What do think is in it?｢(ﾟﾍﾟ)"
"Hopefully a rare item. I've been wanting to get one of those big coins with a load of cash in them!"
"Aren't those usually found in Lowee's underground levels?(・・。)ゞ"
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're ALL in Lowee." Cayde crouched into a jumpers position before jumping as high as he could, fist raised making contact with the block in the same manner as a famous plumber known to game kind. Landing gracefully on he ground he looked up to see Healing Grass and a Healing Circle fall into his hands.
"Sweet! These could come in handy!" Cayde pockted the items into his inventory. "Now onto the rest."
Repeating what he did the first time he collected coins and items like it was buffet before he finally arrived at the last block hitting with a Life Fragment coming out. "Whoa.."
"That isn't a good sign...( ；´Д｀)"
"Usually when stuff like this happens in videogames, it's usually a boss waiting at the end of the level." Cayde pocketed the item with care before hopping threw another entrance way landing back onto the ground level.
"Well be your toes. Who knows what could come up next.(;¬_¬)" Cayde nodded before running ahead into an open area almost shaped of that into an arena but only smaller. "So, what do you think?", Cayde asked as he surveyed the world below him.
"Well there's no doubt in my mind this is the place where they had retreated." His Oracle replied spotting Dogoo, Healing, a few Horse Bird and some Dragon Knights.
Cayde nodded, thought's exactly. The Dragonslayer was hiding behind a broken piece of wall that broke apart, giving him cover and a perfect overview of the levels below him. "Guess were pretty high up, I could have sworn the level we were on was the ground floor?"
"It was, but that's the strange thing it seems someone or something decided to make a home of some kind, but whatever made it seemed to have just left it." The tome replied, clearly puzzled.
"Maybe.."
"In any case, this area is overrun with monsters. If my hunch is correct then we should be able to find our target." Histoire stated.
"Well!" Cayde straightened from his hiding position, "Looks like we gotta do things the old fashioned way." He peeked over the wall, jumping on to it before jumping above the monsters closet to him igniting his hands. "I'm buring with rage, the flames of my right, the flames of my left put'em together and you get a world of hell!"
"Ababababa! C-Cayde, be careful, if you put so much power into your attack you could-( ꒪Д꒪)ノ!" However, the small tome's voice was death to teens ears as he unleashed his attack.
"Fire Dragon.." He put his hands together, creating a giant ball of fire that shinned on the monster below turning their attention towards the light, "..Brilliant Flame!"
Chucking the giant ball of death upon the enemies below, it engulfed a few before exploding shaking the entire area making debris and dust fall and cloud of dust rising from spot the attack collided with Cayde walking triumphantly out of the cloud of dust.
"Done! That was cool right, Histy?" He asked.
But before he could even get a response from her, he felt a fast incoming presence causing him to swiftly dodged a swipe of spear aimed directly above his head, sliding across the ground a few feet away from the attacker which was none other than the hooded stranger.
"My, my you dodged my attack. Impressive." The hooded stranger twirled their deadly weapon, putting it behind them.
"So I take it your the one we're looking for?" Cayde asked putting his hands into his hoodie pockets but kept up his guard incase of another sneak attack.
"Perhaps? Would ever be so kind to give me more detail?"
"Well.." Cayde started recalling certain event's from the other night, "Apparently some rumors have been going around about a certain cloaked "individual" attacking, destroying and hurting innocent little towns on the outskirts of Planeptune."
"That could be anyone." The cloaked stranger protested but Cayde put a finger up.
"True, but eye witnesses say this certain "individual" had a familiar spear like the one your holding and shooting type dark magic causing ruckus within towns." Cayde glared, "They also said that monsters seemed to be following the orders of that person too directing and taking charge of the situation."
The cloaked stranger chuckled evilly, "My so it seems you've done your homework. You are indeed correct boy, I am the one behind all this so called Chaos that's been happening, the terror I bring, and the land I control!" The stranger jumped from their spot posting up on a level above him, before tossing off their cloak revealing the mastermind behind it all.
It was a woman with a witch a gothic appeal, dressing in black is a witch with a gothic appeal, dressing in black with hints of purple. She is gray-white skinned with blood red eyes, slightly slanted like a cats. She has dark makeup around her eyes and lips and a very big witch hat with a golden leaf and thorn Purple rose spiraling around. Her outfit is very flashy in terms of design, consisting of a bustier like top with thick bands/strings going up the center to hold it together, along with unattached sleeves and very noticeable clawed nails.
Her hair almost resembles Neptune's in terms of color. However, in terms of appearance, it's shoulder length with very short slanted bangs and hair framing her right cheek.
"I am the Almighty and Destructor of this Pathetic world, Arfoire!" The woman introduced confidently, smirking down on the boy in front of her. "Tremble within my presence boy, and maybe I shall spare your life."
Cayde stood his ground, his hands no longer in his pockets now visibly clenched into a fist as they shook, but his hands weren't the only thing shaking his whole body shook, a shadow casted over the teens as not even Histoire could tell how he was feeling all the while Arfoire smirk turned into the grin as she watched the boy tremble before her.
"Hm hm hm hm..." Cayde's shoulders bobbed up and down making the tome worry even more.
"Cayde..?(;´Д`)" His Oracle asked putting a small hand on his chest.
"Pffffffttttt.. Hahahahaha!" Cayde suddenly burst out laughing, pointing a finger the shocked dark mage who was surprised at the boys sudden response to her threat.
"A-Are you laughing?!" Arfoire declared anger rising within her.
"Hahahaha!" Cayde only continued laughing causing the anger only to grow more within the dark mage. "S-S-She really thinks she can..Hahaha!"
Histoire, who too was surprised by the boys sudden outburst quickly recovered, "Cayde, a-are you alright?Σ(・Д・)!?"
"Alright? Alright?! DId you not here what she just said?" Cayde continued laughing into between sentences raising confusion in the Oracle.
Looking back to the insulted mage, Histoire stared trying to find the reason behind her Guardians sudden laughter before recalling her introduction. Histoire's cheek puffed before she too started laughing, putting a hand to her mouth to try and stop it.
"I-I see now. Now I understand why your laughing." Histoire quietly giggled within the boys hoodie.
"Tell me!", Arfoire exclaimed angrily, "Just what is so funny!?"
"Y-You said "Destructor" instead "Destroyer" ya old hag, what do you think? You completely messed up your entrance." Cayde wiped a few tears away that fallen from his eyes from his laughter.
"W-What did you just call me?!"
"You heard me. An old hag, because that's exactly what you are."
"I am not old! I'm a woman in her prime, don't you dare forget that!" Arfoire yelled holding up fist.
Cayde only shook his head, "That's what they all say, seriously the gray skin isn't attractive what so ever. You call that fashion?"
"Why you..!" Arfoire raised her spear directly at the teen, firing a dark ball energy at where he stood raising a dust cloud. She grit her teeth in anger, staring at the cloud of dust before a voice called out to her.
"See, you even get angry like a old lady does." Cayde said sitting on rock some distance away from the spot Arfoire attacked.
"Shut your mouth brat and feel my wrath!" Arfoire then summoned many sphere's of dark energy before firing them all the teen who smirked confidently before disappearing a blur as the energy attacks followed behind him causing clouds of dust.
"Even throwing a tantrum like an old lady." Cayde joked to himself.
The chase between Cayde and the dark energy of attacks continued for a short time before Cayde finally decided to call quits. Stopping on the dime, he quickly turned behind him and around where the attack was originally following into the cloud of dust it left. The area in front Arfoire was now nothing but a cloud of dust from what she created as clicked her tongue.
"Damn, he used my attack to make a blind spot." Arfoire scanned throughout the area in hopes of catching a glimpse of him, unknown to her Cayde peaked around from a stone pillar on the same level as her.
"Gotcha. He said before blasting off in blink of an eye fist raised already next to the dark mage. "On your left!"
"Thanks for the heads up." Arfoire vanished from sight, appearing behind the boy spear raised overhead. "Now die!" Thrusting the spear in midst where Cayde was still seen flying in the air, he quickly did a roundhouse to the left side of Arfoire's face knocking to the ground below as the once dust cloud now disappeared.
"Like I said. On your left." Cayde stood over her from above.
Arfoire growled in anger regaining her footing. "You really know how to test my patients brat."
Seems so. But you wanna calm down a bit? Get anymore angry you'll really getting the old lady look."
Arfoire's mouth clenched harder in pure anger as a dark aura sprouted from within her engulfing her entire body.
"That's it. Now i'm mad, say your prayers because you'll never see the light of day again!"
Arfoire charges at and he dodges her spear and bends back swinging it at him and at the right timing he kicks her spear making it stuck into the ground, doing so he ignited his fist throwing it towards the witch only for her to hop over his arm landing on it before doing a upward axe kick knocking him back before twirling around the the implanted spear kicking the boy in gut knocking him back a greater distance which was enough time to get her spear from the ground.
"Do you honestly think you can beat me? Your life is forfeit!" The witch yelled out with a purple orb appearing.
"But can you handle the heat?" Cayde asks which makes her flinch a bit in surprise at how durable the child was. He engulfed his body in flames, burning the area around him. "Try this on for size!" He makes fire burst from his feet, combining this with his speed became nothing but a flaming bullet flying at her, "Fire Dragon Sword Horn!". he headbutts her in the stomach making the two fly from the upper level back down the ground raising yet another cloud of dust.
"Might have gone a bit over board." Cayde said re-amerging from the dust cloud looking at it in slight suspense.
"Stay on your guard she isn't finished yet.(ง •̀_•́)ง" Histoire gripped her hands, she shook with slight fear, small beads of sweat running down her forehead.
Feeling the Oracle's body shake in his hoodie, Cayde placed a hand on her head to calm her down. "It's going to be okay, Histy. We'll beat her and get out of here." He re-encouraged with a smile. Histoire nodded in agreement, however, with Cayde distracted he failed to noticed the shadow looming over him.
"Behind you!" A voice called out from above, diving towards the duo and hitting Arfoire who had a spear readied for the Dragonslayers head. Arfoire flew a feet before digging her heels into the ground to stop her momentum.
"Who dares interrupt my fight!" Arfoire demanded as the figure rose from they're spot on the ground revealing to be Alex, his arm in it's Lizard form combined with metal, he glared at the witch before glancing behind him.
"So I see you decided to start without me." Alex glanced to the shock Cayde behind him.
Surprised by the sudden save, Cayde grew a sly grin, "First off, thanks for that. Second, did you run ALL the way here just for lil old me?" Cayde asked teasingly, causing a vein to form on the Lastation Guardians head.
"Hell no! I did it because I'm going to be the on to defeat!" Alex declared pointing a thumb to his chest, before pointing to Arfoire, "And you! Your not killing him, he's mine got it?! I'll be the one to kill him before anyone else!"
The three stared at Alex with dead beat expressions, "(Whose side is he on?)," Cayde, Arfoire and Histoire all though with a sweat drop as Alex got into fighting position.
"Your going down lady, get ready!" Alex said glaring.
Walking up and gettinginto a stance next to him Cayde spoke, "Stay on your toes. She's pretty tricky."
"Funny coming from you."
"Grrr, fine...If that's how you want to play then we'll play that way!" She snapped her fingers the echo of the resounding throughout the area.
Silence filled the room before a loud screech was heard from above. The Guardians quickly looked above them to only dodge quickly as whatever made the loud cry attacked them from above. Getting some distance, the duo looked to what attack them only for them to gasp. "A Guard Vermin!?", The duo yelled shocked. The Guard Vermin screeched as Arfoire laughed.
"Now do you see? My power to command these creatures will have you trembling in your shoes in no time, that is if you survive." Arfoire then jumped back onto the level above looking down on them. "Sadly, I won't be able to watch my little pet here end your lives as I have other things to attend to. Ta-ta~." And just like that the dark witch disappeared within the shadows leaving the Guardians to deal with the legendary creature.
"Well it's been awhile since I last seen a Guard Vermin." Cayde chuckled to himself.
Alex just rolled his eyes, "I wonder why, maybe it's due to the fact you've probably been lazing around you haven't seen them in awhile.", He groaned making the blue haired angry.
"Shut it! I know you haven't been finding them on the daily so watch it!" Cayde retorted but before he could say anything else Croire appeared in between the two.
"Can you numbskulls stop fighting for one second and focus the task at hand? That Vermin isn't about sit around any longer!" Croire exclaimed.
She was right. The Guard Vermin screeched once more raising it's giant sword above it's head, swinging it horizontally the pair who jumped over away from the attack/ The Guard Vermin continued it's onslaught of attacks as Cayde and Alex returned the same gesture attacking it's body and legs, knocking the giant enemy agaisnt walls and loose balance ever so few times.
Once again causing it to lose balance, Cayde called out to Alex, "Alex, now!" Cayde commanded punching the Guard vermin with an Iron Fist staggering it back a bit.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Alex jumped from the ground morphing his arms into Tentacles, wrapping them around a pillar, he swinged it around gaining momentum before he released his grip on the pillar once again morphing his arm into this time a Dragon's as power surged threw him.
"Get ready! Blazing Tremors!" Alex smashed the floor near the Guard Vermin causing cracks to form in the floor. Light then started seeping from the cracks as flames and sharp rocks shot out from within the ground causing great damage to the ancient creature.
Cayde landed with a whistle, "Man, not bad! Good job best buddy!" Cayde gave a thumbs to the Lastation Guardian.
Comical veins poped out of the Shapeshifter's head, "Shut up! You and me aren't friends!" Alex crossed his arms looking away.
"Oh? Do we have a little tsundere on our hands?" Cayde slightly teased making him angrier.
"NO."
Cayde, Alex look!" Histoire called out to the duo who looked back to the Guard Vermin with determined glares.
The Guard Vermin slowly rose from it's spot on the ground and growled before screeching, however, this screech was so loud it made the Guardians cover their ears due to how loud it was.
"Ah! What the heck is it doing?!"
"It's angry! I guess my last attack pissed it off!" Alex said releasing his hands from his head as the scream died down.
Alex was indeed right. The last attack he did sent the ancient creature into spiraling rage as it attacked everything around itself, destroying still stable pillars causing flooring from above them to start falling into the area they were fighting.
"Whoa! We gotta stop this thing before it buries us alive along with it!" Cayde exclaimed as he dodged incoming debris.
"I know! Lemme think!" Alex said grappling onto to still stable pillars that weren't being destroyed and onto a platform a few levels above the rampaging Vermin. Scanning the area below, Alex noticed how the Vermin destroyed flooring and the levels above as debris continued to fall around it surprisingly instead of on it. "Wait, is it trying to get rid of our hiding spots or is it trying destroying our posts so we can't attack from above?"
Watching as Cayde, continued to dodged and attack the Guard Vermin, Cayde would continously go for the head for the Guard Vermin to block or knock him back as it continued it's onslaught.
Then a idea popped into Alex's head, "It's protecting it's head. Why not it's legs? It's almost as if his entire body is protected expect his..That's it!" Alex then jumped a few levels down calling out to the Dragonslayer. "Cayde, get up here I have an idea!"
Hearing the Lastation's Guardians call, Cayde dodged another swipe from the Guard Vermin only this time instead of going to attack he rushed towards it and jumped off it gaining height and landing on the same level as the Shapeshifter.
"What's up? You figure something out?" Cayde asked glancing to the guard Vermin as it started scanning the area for them.
"I have. You noticed how we kept attackig it's body but it never really do any major damage until I did my attack?"
Cayde nodded. "Yeah, it's almost like it had armour on. But the more I hit the more it started cracking."
"Right." Alex acknowledged, "Which means it can only take so much before it fully breaks but I noticed something else. Did you notice how every time you would go to attack it's head it would do everything in it's power to top you?" Cayde nodded again. "It's simple, the Guard Vermins body is protect but not it's head, meaning that's the weak point!"
"Well, yeah I figured that but it keeps blocking me no matter what I do. It's got lock down it's surroundings."
"Think about it." Histoire popped up from within her Guardians hoodie. "If it can see where your going to attack and deflect your every move, what else can you do?"
Cayde closed his eyes in thought, trying to put together the situation. If the Guard Vermin knew his every move and saw where he was going to attack from no matter how hard he would push it back, what could he do? Growing frustrated he grip his fist tighter until the answer finally came to him.
"If it can see where i'm going to attack, why not attack his blind spot!" Cayde said making Alex grin.
Exactly, it's doing everything in it's power to stop from hitting's it's head, but it never ever decided to look up so.."
Cayde nodded finishing his sentence, "We attack from above!"
The two tomes smiled at their Guardians cooperation in defeating Vermin. Even if they were competing for shares, seeing how they would do anything even putting pass their personal grudge against one another to protect their home showed how determined they were to keep moving forward.
"Alright, let's finish so we can pack up and go home. I remember Compa saying something along the lines of making dinner tonight and I would surely appreciate if we got back in time for supper." Cayde punched his fist as ignited.
"Gladly, working with you has been chore on it's own." Alex agreed his arm morphing into a Dragon's Arm once more.
"Say something else ya freak of nature and your gonna get it!" Cayde warned with angry comical sharp teeth.
"What's the fire boy? You gotta problem with how I function?"
"Yeah, so what if I do?"
The two Oracles sweatdrop at the once touching moment now ruined due to Alex's big mouth, but non the less the duo got ready for their final attack.
The glanced towards each other and nodded before running and jumping into the air above the Guard Vermin as Cayde's body lit up in flames, grabbing him by the hood of his well hoodie Alex started spinning gaining speed and momentum as time slowed down for the two before they released their attack. "Ya ready dude?" Cayde asked glancing behind him. Alex only grinned, "I've dreamed of this day for so long." Cayde blankly stared in front of him with comical wide eyes in confusion. "Uh what do you-"
"Now!" Time resumed to normal speed, Alex suddenly chucked the blue teen like pro football player as he divided at high speeds towards the Guard Vermin who noticed the incoming light but also heat form above. Looking up to what it was, it saw Cayde with angered look on his face. "Your finished! Fire Dragon...SWORD HORN!" Becoming but nothing like a flaming meteor from space, Cayde collided with the Guard Vermin's head smashing it to the ground as it screamed in pain before giant explosion ripped throughout the lower level of the ruins causing a mini earthquake with in the area.
Alex landed on level above the now destroyed lower part of the ruins, a giant dust cloud clouded the area with him and Croire looking down at it in concern.
"Did you beat it?" Croire continued looking down to cloud of dust.
"Well I certainly don't here it."
"Well better than nothing but what about them?" Croire asked slightly concerned for her rivals well being knowing for a fact that Histoire was indeed still with Cayde when he was fighting the Guard Vermin.
"You need to relax, as far as I know nothing could kill that idiot. Look." Alex pointed to the center of the room wiht the now disappearing cloud of dust. Looking to where he was pointing Croire smirked as Cayde was waving to them from down below with Histoire too looked up at them with triumph.
"Man, what a day!" Cayde stretched as he walked with the tome in the dusk of day. "Who thought it would have taken that long."
"I'll agree with you on that part, however we did complete our mission in finding out who the master mind behind the attacks were.(๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و" Histoire said with triumph.
Cayde only chuckled to himself at his Oracles happy tone. Looking up at the now orange sky, he breathed in the fresh air of Planeptune before exhaling in relaxation. "Y'know if I wasn't training all the time I would totally take a nap right now."
Histoire sweatdropped, "Don't you nap anytime of the day?" Cayde only responded sticking his tongue out playfully at the tome who in return only giggled. "Well enough of dilly dallying didn't you say Compa was making dinner tonight?" Cayde froze on the spot before he jumped in the air shock.
"Crap! C'mon Histy, we need to go before Neptune and Iffy take all the food! I remember the lsat time Neptune was over she took all the chocolate cake Compa made and left nothing for us!" Grabbing the small tome who yelped in shock by the sudden action, he blasted in nothing but a blur back to the Basilicom just in time for dinner.
Somewhere on the outer skirts of Planeptune, Arfoire watched the nation from afar with a confident smile.
"Well it would seem as if I was wrong. I guess they were capable." She crossed her arms and started walking away fro the nation, "Well it's nice to know that wen I try and take over this world someone could at least put up a fight." Just then something shined within her pocket, reaching and grabbing it, it revealed to be a crystal ball as a image appeared within it. A diamond of some sorts shinned blue within the crystal ball as Arfoire smiled. "Well it would seem we have two of them now. Perfect."
Arfoire's laughs echoed throughout the area as the sun once over the horizon now set ending the once eventful day until the next time the sun rose once more.