Chapter 104: The Sky Battle Part 2
For Drum and Gao, it was obvious that Despair was going to focus his attention to them and it was exactly what he did in. The darkness dragon charged at them and targeted Gao. He tried to attack him, but Drum came in the way and grabbed the dragon fist. The boy readied his sword and slashed, but the dark dragon evaded the blade and took a safe distance from them.
As he gazed at the two, he chuckled, "This is funny Drum. You aren't fighting me by yourself now," he glared at him while a grin appeared on his face, "What would your mother feel if you get help to destroy me? Surely displease by your action or disappointed." In his mind the dragon was glad that Joker wasn't fighting against Drum anymore and caused some annoyance to his provocation.
"Don't talk about her as if you know her!" Drum yelled.
"You may have become weaker since last time. You were much more aggressive and violent when you tried to kill me. You refused help with your dragon pride, but it is gone now. Just like your mother, you let things died," the darkness dragon said.
The red dragon felt his blood boiling even more in his veins and replied, "Shut up!"
"Drum! Don't let him get to you!" Gao warned his friend.
The red dragon breathed slowly as he tried to calm down. He remembered his training and forced himself to not let his rage took control of him another time.
"Maybe you don't really care about your mother after all," he chuckled.
Drum felt his rage increasing even more. It was then that Despair continued his assault on them.
Meanwhile, Phoenix flew at a safe distance from Joker who was chasing him.
"Come back here so I can freeze you," Joker ordered, knowing too feel what would the answer be.
"Take this!" the green bird replied as he threw sharp feathers at him.
Joker blocked most of them with his blade, but some of them pierced his frozen body. Because he was a monster made of ice, he wasn't bleeding. Despite that, he felt the pain resonating in his entire being and contained a grunt in his body. He used his power and created a few ice cubes and broke them with his blade, throwing many ice spikes at Phoenix.
Phoenix dodged all of them with his superior flying skills and turned around to begin his charge at the blue monster.
Joker saw the giant green bird coming at him and did the same. The closed the distance really fast and the Joker managed to block the beak of Phoenix with his blade and used this chance to slide a little under him. He slashed the chest of Phoenix, but the green bird was already taking some distance and the wound was minimized. The ice monster lightly grunted and his inefficient attack, but focused on trying to guess the next thing his enemy would do.
Phoenix quickly glanced at his buddy and saw that she was doing fine and thought of a plan to incapacitate Joker since he knew he was Kiri's buddy and not an evil monster. He used his feathers once again to attack the joker at a safe distance, but this time, he was ready and blocked the feathers with his blade with ease as he closed the distance between them.
Phoenix used his claws to grab the blade and once he got them. He flew down at all his speed and dragged Joker with him. As he charged toward the ground, the ice monster yelled, "That's going to break the ice!"
When he was close to the ground, he let go of the green bird monster and flew right back toward the sky and tried to join Kazane and help her. He had one important duty and it was to protect lady Kazane. He heard something behind him and glanced behind, he saw the Joker coming at him fast with his body that didn't suffer more damage than Phoenix previously inflicted.
"He never crashed," Phoenix thought to his surprise.
Joker readied his blade as he yelled, "That's what I meant by breaking the ice!" He slashed and hit the back of Phoenix. This time, it was a deep wound and Phoenix painfully grunted as he lost altitude. With the pain on his back, it was difficult to fly as he couldn't regain altitude.
"Kazane. He's much stronger... than I thought," he thought as he began his descent.
Joker watched his adversary falling. His red eyes light diminished as he thought, I'm sorry it had to end that way, but I am Kiri's buddy, now and forever.
He turned toward his buddy still fighting Kazane and flew to his help.
As the battle between Phoenix and Joker started, Kazane readied her card and looked at the Reaper. She used her spellcard and a sword and shield appeared. She grabbed them in each of her hands and was ready to fight.
Reaper charged with his scythe and slashed with high speed. Kazane blocked it with her shield and took a safe distance from the other one and focused on defending herself. She blocked every attack of the boy wearing a mask. She blocked the blade of the scythe with her shield and sometimes with her sword.
The Reaper noticed that the girl wasn't giving everything she had and was focusing on the defensive. He looked on her face and noticed that, compared to Gao, she lack any aggressively in her assault. Even if Gao knew that he was Kiri behind the mask, he was still fighting stronger and faster that her. He didn't ask any question and passed at the offensive.
Kazane blocked the assault and knew that she had to take the offensive, but she couldn't help and thought, Can I hurt someone else with my sword? I could kill him. It created some hesitations to attack the Reaper, but eventually, she lightly bit her lips and attacked.
The Reaper blocked her sword with ease and the rest of the assault without any trouble. He watched her and suddenly pushed her arm away and kicked her away.
Kazane used her buddy skill to regain balance and coughed painfully as she blocked the scythe coming at her. She used her shield to block his assault and wondered how she could get out of this. She looked at her deck case, but didn't have time to pick a card and both her hands were busy right now to survive the assault.
She managed to fly out of The Reaper's range and readied her sword. She hesitated at the thought of wounding him, but at the same time, she was in danger of getting killed. Her thought were conflicted and she saw him coming at her again.
"You don't take opportunity to attack Kazane," The Reaper said before slashing with his scythe.
She blocked the attack and continued defending herself. Eventually, she blocked on attack that was too close for her taste and flinched, giving a second for her enemy to punch her face.
She put her hand on her left cheek and looked at Reaper.
"Is that all what you can do?" he asked her.
She didn't reply with anger, but her face showed some uncertainty, "No," she replied despite that.
The Reaper didn't seem impressed by her reply and drew a card, "I'll get more serious now."
Kazane frowned as she got ready, unsure if she could keep it up with the Reaper, but she didn't have the intention of losing the battle or Gao will be in trouble.
Drum charged with his drill and missed his target. Despair chuckled as he charged at Gao, changing target to provoke the red dragon. Gao dodged the dark dragon and took a safe distance. He drew a spellcard, "Dragon Breath!"
Despair was hit by the fire breath of a magical dragon temporary appearing thanks to the spellcard.
Gao frowned as he wondered what Despair would do next. The darkness dragon charged at the boy, but Drum kicked his flank and pushed him away from his buddy.
Drum used his thrusters to take a safe distance from the darkness dragon and readied his drill once again. He gazed at his enemy with his buddy when they heard the dark dragon chuckling loudly.
"Is this all what you can do?" Despair asked as he tapped his flank, "I barely fell it. It was almost nothing for me. Compare to you parents, you are nothing."
Drum held his fury inside of him, but a sip of blood came out of his mouth as one of his teeth pierced his gum. He knew that he was barely reaching his breaking point. It wasn't just the insult and provocation that was pushing him on the edge, but also everything he did before and what he knew would come next.
"That's enough!" Gao yelled as he glared at the darkness dragon. He pointed his finger at the dragon and started, "You are only enraging him instead of fighting him when he's at his best Despair!
"Drum is resisting his rage and fight by your side, but once you are gone..." he grinned.
Drum yelled, "I won't let you kill my buddy!"
"He won't Drum. You don't have to let him get to you," Gao said. He grabbed his jacket and turned it around. He remembered that he doubted his ability as the Sun Fighter. He remembered that he often checked in the manga of his late older brother. Even so, it was a situation where he had no reason to hesitate, "Despair! All you are doing is provoking my friend! The way you are acting, I realise what you really are!"
"Humor me," he crossed his arms, "What am I?"
"You are just a coward!" he didn't let the darkness dragon replied as the dragon glared at him, "It is what you truly are! You are always fighting at the advantage in an unfair fight! You know you can easily defeat Drum if he's berserk because he doesn't think and plan his strategy anymore! You murdered his mother from behind because you couldn't beat her! All you do is for you sadistic pleasure! This is why Drum and I are going to defeat you once and for all!" He then put his jacket with the sun on the back, "Eclipsing the darkness with flames and brightening the hearts of the mistreated, The Mighty Sun Fighter is here!"
"You didn't do that for a long time Gao," Drum commented, but he knew that Gao was serious now. He used what his buddy thought him and tried to calm down. He managed to calm his fury after hearing what his friend thought of the darkness dragon.
Despair was glaring at Gao and it was clear that he was furious, "You- Screw Azi orders!" he pointed his claw at him and yelled, "You'll be the first to die! No one ever said that and survived my wrath!" He then used his claw to pierce his scales and covered them with his own blood. He then readied himself for battle, "My Bloody Claw will make you regret those words human!"
Drum and Gao heard Despair well when he said Azi order. Drum wasn't surprised, but Gao was, but immediately chased that away as the battle was about to continue.
AC: This is the end of the second part.
Next chapter: The Sky Battle Part 3