AN: Hello, hello and happy 4th of July! Today is 'Merica's birthday folks! Go eat, drink and try not to blow off your finger today!
Speaking of fireworks, here is the kind of spectacle needed for today.
It's Round 1 in the battle against Shaula, and all I can say is that it will be a crazy one!
But please, don't take my word for it...Please ENJOY.
Arc Seven: The Tower Incursion
Chapter 38: The Siege of Pleiades
"Move! Move!"
All the feet stomping on the sand, created a thunderous noise, sending the world the message; it had begun.
Thousands of soldiers, some riding on Ground Dragons, some on the shoulders of massive beastman; numbering in the near 100,000, charged towards that large structure.
Shaula riled in anger, seeing all these intruders, their strange weapons and odd abilities; foolishly attempting to breach her beloved master's work, decided to teach them a lesson.
[Dimensional Gate!]
The space around all the men began to create a weird kind of swirling motion, like they were all car sick. However with a loud crashing sound, Attero was the first to make it to her, distracting Shaula from her spell. With the dissipated spell shattering completely, the armies continued.
The tanks fired upon the spot where Shaula would be.
Amazingly she would kick the shots away, like a child playing soccer, explosions sprinkled across the desert. Attero created two large fang constructs, which Shaula punched into bits, before Attero used his speed to rush into Shaula and form spike constructs which slammed her through a wall. Using a backflip to get to her feet, Shaula punched Attero, rocking his consciousness. Trying to grab his mouth, she had every intention in snapping his neck. However, Jolokia tossed an axe construct to her face, distracting her enough for Gyras and Linnea to use their rings powers to pry her hands off Attero. Using all her might she broke free and spun in the air, launching long golden spears of light out at them. Shooting them away from her, this allowed Shaula to jump into the air, back to her balcony position and animalistically begin lobbying several of these, "Light Needles", and attacked the approaching army.
Explosions scattered around the marching men and women.
Stanley watched as an entire group of ten people were obliterated in front of him, sand kicked up all around them. A large sandworm emerged from the ground...only to be tackled by their own, Soulfly. It slammed the enemy down as Poco, the giant spider Red Lantern spat construct strings that stabbed through its head.
Still, the army continued, amidst the attacks coming towards them.
Shaula then focused and formed a ball of surging golden and purple energy, but balanced on one foot and used her other leg to kick away a massive blast. The Zeppelin continued to fire, but Shaula quickly tossed the ball it, resulting in a horrifying explosion, which killed everyone inside that blimp. The Zeppelin began to fall, as many in the army tried to move out of the way, but some were unlucky, still crushed by it.
Now a massive blaze was taking up a large section of these dunes. The tanks continued, their spider appendages crushed the sand underneath them...only for four to explode suddenly, they tried to break formation to dodge the incoming needles. Shaula was primed for another, but soon got her arm wrapped in an armbar...by Moussaka. Other Red Lanterns, many in fact, began firing beams at her, simply bruising her; roaring in insane annoyance, she sent a golden electric wave that pushed most of them back. But Moussaka would not relent in his submission.
Before she could kick him off, Jolokia used his trademark Battleaxe to attack her head...it hardly did anything, so Jolokia punched her...resulting in two of his large fingers to break.
Shaula headbutted him, breaking his nose, and then she flipped in the air and slammed Moussaka down, but he did not let go. Making him pull out a Metia Rod, shooting her directly in the face. Screaming angrily she fired golden beams from her eyes, making him let go. Now, she proceeded to punch him down, actually hurting him good.
Jolokia intervened.
He kneed her on the side of her head, pulled her into a half nelson, then let go and created spike construct, a huge one in his palm, and jammed it into her face.
And got to see her catch it in her teeth, bit it into oblivion and used her own piercing fingers move, to hit Jolokia in the liver, making him pass out. Now she aimed her high kick at his head...only for a barrage of red beams to strike her to the ground, the balcony now break way. She and the others were in a free fall, as countless Red Lanterns kept firing beams at Shaula...but she snarled at everyone and prepared to fire another needle.
Jolokia intervened, again.
He tackled her through a large section of the destroyed balcony and kept her in place on another section of it.
A random Red Lantern, a kid probably no older than 17, began using a crowbar construct and began to attack her head.
"Fuck! Fuck! FUCKING DIE!"
With a powerful yell, she used her mana to send out a shockwave to push them off of her. First, she hopped off the still falling rubble and punched Jolokia three times in the face, before kicking him away. Next, she faced the young man who made twin sword constructs and tried to behead her, resulting in her tossing a needle at him.
It hit him, but only knocked the wind out of him.
"Bastards, you're tough, aren't you?!"
So she gave him a flying knee and focused with all her might, on a single large needle, more bigger than what even she was used to. Making it several times larger than her own body...And with almost hurling groan she stabbed him in the chest with it.
He let out a small cry...and the needle exploded, making a hole in his chest...killing him.
His Red Ring came off and searched for a new host, his uniform disappearing as a result.
Landing on the sands, she took a breath, but turned around to see countless more Red Lanterns flying down at her.
"There's so many of them!"
She stomped on the ground and the massive mana shockwave shoved them back. Only for the tanks that broke off from their formation to quickly surround her and began firing in unison, trying to pin her down. Even the men inside began firing Metia Rods at her...only for Shaula to menacingly stand up and create a large javelin of golden power, and spin it around beautifully...cutting the tanks in half and bringing about more explosions. Jumping into the air, she launched another needle at a Zeppelin, destroying it as well.
The army reached the entrance of the Tower, but only could go inside at a certain capacity, so everyone waited for their turn to get inside…
Meanwhile, underground; several men hurried around, as they stepped over the dead Lugnican guards, placing sacks filled with mana stones on the edge of the tunnels. As many as they possibly could, all the while trying to not upset their commander.
"I ain't getting mad over a little somethin' like this, let's just get it done, and back to our OTHER duties."
Aldebaran said this as he looked at his pocket watch...and how it ticked away.
Just then, Orlena felt odd as she waited to get into the tower, she was close to it, but looked back and could see all the people waiting to get in...and looked at the sand, and noticed it was shaking.
Aldebaran walked away with his men, still looking at the watch until he snapped it shut, and chuckled.
"Kaboom.'
The floor gave way in the resulting underground explosions, resulting in the horrifying sight of nearly half the army and their remaining tanks tumbling down to their deaths.
Shaula, the Red Lanterns, and all of the soldiers there, watched in stunned silence. Subaru saw this, but noticed an army of Ma-Beast charging at them.
"Everyone split up! Ma-Beasts and Shaula take your pick! The rest, go and secure the Tower!"
Subaru and his group went to fight the Ma-Beast.
Wilhelm and his group went to breach the Tower.
The others, went for Shaula
Genau launched himself at Shaula, using his ram horn constructs to tackle her into the side of the tower. Hurling malice at him, she kicked him across the face, only for him to blast her with a purple beam from his mouth.
Even he was shocked by what he just did, but quickly attributed it to his armor.
"THANK YOU BROTHER OVIDIUSSSSS!"
He launched a massive spiked ball construct which spun into her, it should have ripped her to shreds. But the sight of her using both legs to begin pressing it off of her, was the surest sign it wasn't. Kicking it into pieces she ran up the side of the Tower and began to toss needles at any Red Lantern that approached her, Genau roared and hurried over to catch her.
Shaula proceeded to run up the tower, encountering Genau diving towards her, his twin blade sword construct clashed with her fist, which shattered it into pieces, but he created a large fist construct, imbued with the energy of the suit and socked her across the face. Elbowing it, the construct broke apart and Genau fired another beam from his mouth, which collided with her eye beams, causing a giant dent to form on that embattled structure.
Nijino rushed over and tried to kick her across the face, but she blocked it. Jolokia tried to use his battleaxe, covered in barbed wire constructs, but she made her foot kick it at Nijino, knocking the wind out of her. The Sage then used a dazzling kicking and punching combo on Jolokia, turning around to kick and elbow away another three Red Lanterns, before kneeing Jolokia back. Genau returned to bite her, but she grabbed onto his large neck and judo toss him against Moussaka. All of the nearby Red Lanterns continued trying to use any kind of construct to beat her...but when Linnea created a spear construct, Shaula punt kicked her in the lower jaw, almost snapping it in two, then stole the construct and stabbed a nearby Red Lantern in the neck with it.
The old woman fell to her death, as her ring flew off, to find another host.
Clearly being swarmed by Red Lanterns on all sides...she created over 400 needles, surrounding herself to appear like an ancient Hindu god.
"GET AWAY FROM MASTER'S TOWER!"
Unleashing them, they fired all over the place, destroying large sections of the desert and knocking Red Lanterns out of the sky. Genau ran across the tower, down to the desert floor, and hurried around the shots aimed at him. Like an expert participate of a dog agility competition, he maneuvered around the blasts, his four legs moving so smoothly and precisely it amazed any one who saw him. Finally he made his desired spot.
"REVENGA ART 2! SLIPKNOT!"
The spike constructs shot out and would hit directly at her needle shots, releasing a haunting sight of red and gold explosions that engulfed the evening sky.
Genau roared as he created spider appendage constructs, of which Shaula created a needle and used it as a blunt object to fight against him. Their strikes clashed, but Nijino made it around her, with her Revenga Arts activated and began to kick her at dazzling speed.
Now Shaula was defending herself against Genau and Nijino, doing very well surprisingly. Nijino got lucky and used the energy of her suit to kick Shaula to the sands, sending tons of it into the air, Genau launched into his first Revenga Art and dashed at her. Shaula rushed in as well, landing a well placed punch on his forehead. Nijino rushed with armor construct covered legs and tried to do a frankensteiner neck snap on her, but Shuala jumped back and landed an inverted piledriver, making Nijino's head bounce. Leaping back to her feet, Nijino pulled out the tomahawks she took from her day off in Kararagi, they glimmered blue.
She used it to hit Shaula, which tried to freeze her arm, but the ice broke away. Nijino used them in a chopping, and kicking combo. Nijino pressed her foot on Shaula, kicked, tossed a tomahawk, retrieved it back with her ring and spun sliced her in the face. Shaula rapid punched, but Nijino used the tomahawks to block them before ballerina kicking her on the top of her scalp. With a loud roar, Nijino used the armor's energy to add power to her strikes, using the tomahawks to make Shaula submit. Her strikes were loud, like cannons being fired. The Sage then, lowered and gut punched her, but Nijino used a thumb to try and gouge her eye, it missed; so yanked the tomahawk to hit her face, and go for a kick...she missed completely.
Taking advantage Shalua straight kicked her in the face and lobbed a needle at her, sending her flying. Genau clawed at her back before releasing several beams out of his armor that got Shaula to stop moving around. Jolokia came into the fray and landed a massive superman punch on her, breaking the other fingers on his already messed up hand. Genau created a buzzsaw constructs that scraped at her, but Shaula karate chopped him to the floor. Then turned her attention to Jolokia, but soon ducked down, dodging a masterful karate kick by Kong.
Kong and Jolokia began attacking her.
Stanley looked back, safe from the giant hole that formed in the desert...which only stopped a few meters away from him, and could see the insanity of the fighting occurring. Before he noticed in the corner of his eye...men were moving around the desert. He rushed over, with Orlena following him. It seemed no one else came along, trying best to get into the Tower instead, not out of selfishness, but out of duty.
"Hey you're um?"
"Orlena, what's up?!"
"Hey, I'm Stanely! Listen, we gotta check if those guys are alright!"
"Alright, we just gotta watch out for any Ma-Beast!"
Stanley and Orlena made it to the men and breathed a sigh of relief to see them fine.
"Hey, you guys are alright! Thank fucking God!"
"Soooo look guys we need to-"
That's when they noticed the eerie stares they were being given cold stares, without an air of warmth. This set their instincts aflared, their participation in the World War, in Vollachia, in Kararagi, it aided in this moment.
Because they reacted first.
Orlena fired her specially made metia staff, which blasted away like a modern day flamethrower. With half the ominous impostors on fire, the other tried a pincer attack on her, but Stanley ran forward and used his ikwa blade, to stab into one man's face. Dodged another strike by a nunchuk using woman, stabbing her in the eye, he then hopped, kicked another man in the face before flinging across and having his blade stab another in the neck.
He fell with his opponent, but saw a dagger on his belt, he quickly stole it and stabbed through his cheek. This gave Orlena the chance to pull out her own dagger and attack the man behind him, stabbing through his neck, sending liters of blood all over her face. She then whacked the other man across the face with her staff, breaking all his teeth before aiming the staff and firing flames all over his face.
Stanley finished off the last of the two men with quick strikes and a nasty stomp to the neck.
He huffed and inhaled as much air as he could get, luckily as the Witch's Miasma was now diluted from this area, now that the Algol Tree fell years ago.
"Fuck man, that was damn scary."
He reached over and grabbed his ikwa from the guys face, but also found it.
"Look! An emblem, from the Exogenesis!"
"Then, these guys were responsible for that blast earlier?!"
"No doubt, bastards are always sneaky like that."
He smirked at her, making Orlena grin back.
"Alright, then let's-"
Her head was sliced clean off.
Stanley's eyes grew wide, horrified, shocked and confused by what just happened. As her body fell, the figure apporached behind her, the assailant, the murder.
"Of course there had to be some meddlesome brats getting involved."
Aldebaran, with his green cloak fluttering and waving in the wind, began walking over Orlena's body.
"You just had to notice us, if you hadn't, you could've just as easily died with your buddies fighting a losing war."
"You-You're Aldebaran!"
"...Did I mention I don't like being called that?"
He dashed at him, slicing open his chest, making Stanley almost fall back. Aldebaran headbutted him, breaking apart all of his front teeth.
Stanley collapsed on his side, holding his mouth, as Aldebaran walked slowly towards him.
"All we were meant to do, was thin the herd enough for Shaula to easily manage the Red Lanterns, but it seems some of you still made it."
"...Hk."
"Now, I guess-"
Stanley thrust his ikwa upward, making Al jump back. Stanley got up and got into an offensive stance, causing Aldebaran to sigh. Stanley hurried and began trying to jab and slice him, but Al was quite adept at this sort of thing, dodging strikes of all kinds. Stanely spun the ikwa in his hand and yelled as blood gushed out of his mouth.
He kicked off the sand and made a beeline to him….
"DONA."
A stalagmite birthed itself from the sand and stabbed through Stanley's chest. He dropped his ikwa, as he gripped the rock stabbed through his chest, but it was still connected to the ground, thus making him stuck. Al went over and grabbed his head, using his metal hand to grab the ikwa.
"Now...this is for calling me that name."
"...Fuck….You…"
"That's what those Aussies call a bonzer attitude, good to see it in this world."
He slowly stabbed the blade into his neck, the victim unable to fight back, he could only moan and gurgle.
"I don't take any joy from this man, you were just on the wrong side in all this."
In the corner of Stanley's eyesight, he could see...Midge Ure walking through the sands, motioning to him...then it was Bougatsa, and several other figures...but it became blurry...too blurry…
"Sorry guys, I guess it wasn't enough…"
His eyes went dark, as the entire blade went through his whole neck.
Al yanked it out, and tossed it to the sandy floor, he then pulled out a small metia, which began to sparkle.
"Time to teleport out of here."
Then it was shot out of his hand. He looked up seeing a Red Lantern dive right at him, he leaped back dodging the massive attack.
He got up and stared at the plume of sandy debris, walking towards him and stomping out the metia was...Frederica.
"It's a good thing I noticed the commotion from all the way up there."
"Fuck, those brats got me caught!"
"Now then, Aldebaran...have you prepared for an untimely demise?"
He then readied his sword, as his black metallic arm, turned into several tendrils with shining tips. Her cestus shined as well, as her lime green eyes shone like a feline in the night.
"Did I mention, I hate being called that name?
Shaula kicked Genau away, parried one of Kong's piercing finger strikes, elbowed Jolokia away, thunder clapped a few Red Lanterns off of her, and judo tossed a kick from Nijino and blocked a dazzling barrage of punches from Kong. Kong then tried to do finger jabs at her eyes, but slapped them away, he then did a beautiful punch, to elbow, to chop and then thrusting under hand combo, but Shaula blocked all of them. With just a moment she kicked his stomach and then his leg, then his hip, and then his head...all with the same leg.
Each hit letting out a scary thunderous gunshot sound.
She grabbed his head and kneed him in the face, and readied a powerful Needle in her hands, but was tackled to the ground by Nijino, making her toss it randomly and kill a wolf beastman Red Lantern, who died very quickly.
Nijino and Shaula wrestled on the ground, until Nijino jumped off, had a wave of purple energy smack Shaula across the face, and then landed a sharp knee to her face. When she tried for another one, she combined a balde construct with that violet mana to kick Shaula into the walls of the Tower. Genau shook himself back to his feet, and ran to Jolokia.
"Jolokia!"
"Genau-sama, what-"
"-Come with me, I got an idea!"
"Huh?"
Jolokia could see the determination in his eyes and easily agreed to follow along.
Nijino used her armor to create several tendrils of purple energy, which Shaula swatted away each and every one of them. Other Red Lanterns tried to pressure her, attacking her from all sides with various attacks and constructs, but she would punch elbow and kick many of them away. Nijino tried to fire a violet beam from her palm, but Shaula grabbed on her wrist, twisted her hand and redirected the shot onto the ground, rewarding her efforts with a solid kick to the face.
Judo tossing her to the floor before firing a rapid shot attack spree of her needles, making the Red Lantern grunt in pain. More Red Lanterns tried to attack from behind, but Shaula spun kick a wave of golden energy, knocking them back. Kong grabbed the back of her head and tried to snap her neck, but with one massive twist, it failed. Using the back of her head to headbutt him, she spin kicked him and shrouded her fist with golden mana and punched him far away. Hearing the commotion going on inside the Tower, she scowled hideously and jumped into the air, shooting up like a missile. Catching herself, she ran up the side of the Tower, before making it to the large hole where the balcony was. Attero got up and began shooting out claw mark constructs, which doged with masterful acrobatics. Gyras wrapped his whip construct around her neck trying to pull her back outside, but she quickly spun around, chopped it to pieces and fired two needles at him, knocking him out of the air.
But something slammed her to the floor, making her get up while spitting.
Floating down, was a helmeted man in his Aeon armor.
"Shaula."
"And who the hell are you supposed to be?"
"Come now, it's me, the person who has been dreaming of this day for years. Years, and days, months, and seconds, and breaths and in thoughts alone. Making sure I was here, to see the Sage of this Watchtower, die."
Ovidius landed on his feet, staring daggers at her.
"Again, I don't even know who the hell you are."
He shook his head, and sighed disappointingly.
"Of course a seflish imbecile like you, would forgo even remembering the victims of those who have suffered at your dumb hands."
"Hey, I only do what I can to protect my Master's precious tower, all to be saved by his precious me!"
"You?"
Shaula got into a fighting stance, while Ovidius scratched his helmet mask….
"So, you've been guarding this place, all this time, for a master...who hasn't been seen for four hundred years?"
"He'll come back! One day, he'll be back and be sooooo proud of me that he'll express his gratitude and love for me!"
"Oh?"
"Then we'll truly be one, and divide as many, with soooo many kids, it'll blow everyone's socks off!"
Ovidius stared at her, as Shaula inched closer and closer to him...then…
"A dog."
"HUH!?"
"You're a dog...a simple minded, loyal dog. Who follows his masters last order, even though it's obvious he is not coming back."
"...Be quiet."
"All that time wasted, all those people hurt, for nothing. All for your own delusions of service and loyalty."
"...Shut up."
"It's amusing. So curious. So FUNNY! Aha, here I thought you were some dreary watch guard, sharp and cold like steel. But! BUT! Dahahaha! You're just a stupid love struck girl, who has made herself suffer for someone who is not even here any longer!"
"...SHUT UP."
"It's hilarious! HILARIOUS! You are the epitome of a loser in love! You'll never obtain that romance, so you lock yourself away in this miserable tower! That is the truth, you are a pathetic fool without a purpose any longer! , the Stars-Keeper of the Watchtower?! FAR FROM IT! You are the Shaula, THE GREAT BUFFOON UNDER THE STARS! DAHAHAHAHA! WHAT A COMPLETE IDIOT!"
Her eyes shook, her face twitched as if she held everything back from losing her mind at his words.
THat is until he pointed and laughed at her even more.
"I SAID SHUT UP! YOU FUCKING FREAK!"
Ovidius watched as she dashed right at him and threw a punch...and held out his metia. THe Metia got hit and barely held together as it absorbed the energy from her blow. He ducked down and activated.
"Revenga Art! Shirkande Connection!"
The twisting and swirling lines of constructs shot out of his ring and slammed against her. Giving him a moment to put the metia to her chest and fire, which released the kinetic energy from her blow. It was massive enough to make her hurl out saliva.
He followed it up by pulling out another metia, his signature lightning Metia, he shot bolts of electricity right under her chin. Making her fly into the air, he pulled out another Metia which blasted a buckshot-like attack of all magical elements at her. He flew up and had several spear constructs rain down and slammed her to the floor, nearly breaking the whole level apart.
"Remember Shaula! My name is Ovidius Loman, and I'm going to be the one who kills your miserable life!
He shot down and dodged a massive overhead kick from her, and used his other Revenga Art.
"Revenga Art 2! Reflektor Cubes!"
The cube sporadic attack, of them shooting out to smaller and sharper constructs forced Shaula to use her arms to guard, even though it killed Roy Alphard. Ovidius then fired swirling beams out of his ring, then leaped over her and blasted violet beams from his palms, before kicking the air and releasing armor induced energy blasts that made her feet slid across the floor.
He soon flew again at her.
Eager to not give her a chance.
Wilhelm and a few other Red Lanterns entered the Tower and were searching it, heading up a spiral staircase, which eventually led them to an empty white space.
"Hey, came to see me, you?"
"...That is…"
They saw him, a man with a muscular physique, long red hair, sky blue eyes, wearing a crimson kimono which he only wore half of properly, leaving the right side uncovered, which included a white sarashi around his body, and a black eye patch over his left eye that has an ugly pattern. The pattern resembling a typical 70's style carpet, a cheap one at that.
"So, gonna answer me, you?"
"If I am not mistaken, you're Reid."
"...Ah come on you! I wanted to look like the mysterious and good looking type, right? Especially if there were some fine ladies among you."
"We have no quarrel with you, however it is that you are still here. Move aside at once!"
Reid however, stomped his foot flinging an air of power around him, as he pulled out...a pair of chopsticks…
"How about we just have some fun, with-"
Wilhelm created his second Revenga Art, the gigantic sword and clashed with his chopsticks...only for another Red Lantern to wrap chain constructs around his arm, then another to create large arm constructs which grabbed his other arm. A preteen girl, slid across the floor and wrapped her legs around his own. Then, something hit the side of his face, finally shocking him, and going around him, was the smallest Red Lantern, Walthamstow.
"Okay, now my attention is drawn to you."
His chopsticks snapped under the pressure, making Reid break free of all the constructs, chopping Wilhelm to the floor and capoeira kicking the others away. He then pulled out of the floor, a nice fine looking sword.
"Don't disappoint me, all of you."
Wilhelm got up and activated his Revenga Art, Exodus - Ashura. Forming those construct arms, with swords included.
"Then let us meet in the art of combat, Reid Astrea."
Subaru continued his own participation, stabbing and slicing through a charging army of Ma-Beast.
"C'mon, let's get that fucking thing ready!"
He then got the notice, and watched as barrels flung across the air and hti behind the Ma-Beast. Releasing the Stardust Flames, engulfing a large area of the desert in green flames, as well as destroying the beasts. The entire desert was now a true scene of destruction and chaos. Subaru then flew into the air with the other Red Lanterns who helped him out in the incident...only to get a message in his ring.
"What is it?!"
"Sire, we have situation!"
"I can kinda see it from here."
"No, not the Augria Sand Dunes, it's Kararagi!"
"What?"
"Gusteko has invaded the neighboring nation and the two sides are currently locked in combat!"
"Shit, okay, Jamiroquai, take yourself and Felt to make sure it doesn't get too far, if does, break it up!"
"Yes sir!"
He fumed with anger but soon noticed the really dire issue.
"The TOWER!"
It had been begun tilting, the damage it obtained, combined with the explosion earlier was making it start collapsing. He saw that everyone else was far too busy in there own right to even notice something like that, making Subaru face a heavy decision on the matter.
The Red Lanterns who helped him out, now faced the new pressing issue.
"Go! We need the Tower, or all of this was pointless!"
The Red Lanterns created giant chain constructs, crane constructs and even giant stick figure constructs to begin pushing the Tower back into place.
Subaru wasn't needed for this so he hurried to see what was going on with Shaula.
Kong kicked Shaula across the face, who shoved him to the grund and punched him in the face, then Attero used his Ring's energy to try and tackle her, she simply redirected him away. Oviodius used this to his advantage and landed an impressively well place machete construct to slice at her neck, but it broke apart instead. He then watched as she went for a punch, but he simply used his Ring to create swirling slide constructs, which redirected her fist into his open palms. He grabbed that fist, and used his technique to spin drop her to the floor. He got up and combined his electricity Metia, his Ring's energy and the power of his Aeon suit to land a humongous violet, crimson thunderstrike on her, smashing apart the entire floor. Everyone fell down to the lower level of this clearly damaged Tower.
He heaved and exhaled from the power attack.
Only for Shaula to grab his face and slammed him to the ground, and soccer kicked him to the wall. He got up and charged, aiming his Metia, only for her to chop it in half then kicked his side, jabbed his face with a powerful needle attack, cracking his helmet badly. He then focused...and when she went for another stab...he looked directly at her, noticing his goggles giving off a glimmer, they shattered as beams of violet light hit her face, making her...bleed. He then tried using his other Metia, but she saw this and stomped to the ground...finally smashing that to pieces too!
His lime green eyes, now stared at her through his shattered goggles, but she uppercutted him, bringing up to her level...and, charged a massively powerful needle attack.
Subaru flew in, right as he saw it.
Shaula flung the needle, which hit Ovidius directly in the chest, making sprays of blood fly everywhere and blasting him through the wall.
"O-O-"
Time slowed to a crawl, as Ovidius flew out, so softly, so peacefully.
He watched as he plummeted to the sand dunes below as time returned to normal…
"OOOOOOVVVVVVVIIIIIIDDDDDDIIIIIIUUUUUUUSSSS!"
The Sage snarled, steam escaping her bloody mouth as she locked eyes with Subaru.
"BRING IT ON!"
"THAT'S MY LINE, SHAULA!"
Though Subaru was aware, fully aware that in other universes, their relationship was far different than what it was now.
In some, they were friends.
In some, they were lovers.
In some, they were conspirators.
The only similarity? It had all begun on an adventure to The Tower.
Still….THIS WAS NOT THE SAME UNIVERSE.
As was the case with everything! Whether it was Garfiel, or Otto, or Priscilla, or even Crusch Karsten; this did not matter to him at all. He was not friends with them, not here not now. And there would be no difference with Shaula, not by a long shot.
He was going to kill her.
THEY ALL WERE.
The new world, required blood to survive.
And here, in these blood soaked sands...it would relish in it.
TO BE CONTINUED…
AN: Take a breath folks, cause we're just getting started. This will be a bloody fight and a lot of people are going to get hurt. Or die, there's that too.
Everybody have fun this weekend, go and watch Spiderman: Far From Home, or Midsommar, this weekend; maybe, sure? Maybe, why not?
Take care everyone! Next time, Ch.39 "The Oni, A Sage, and Aldebaran"
ARC SEVEN ENDS...IN THREE CHAPTERS.
Peace!