Outcasts and Outlaws

Volume 3, Chapter 31

The Strongest Hunter

Here we go, another action packed chapter of stuff. Enjoy.

Opening Music: https/youtu.be/KSLG_oeD1yw [Attention Question- Tohka]

! Means a beat in the music

Music Starts

(Shows Daryl standing in Dust Valley, holding a gun. He raises his arm and points the gun whilst flashbacks of his team and his past appear behind him)

Music stops for about a split second then starts again

(Shows Connor standing in Dust Valley, looking at the ground with hair covering his eyes. He looks up as flashbacks of Team Kalos and the rest of his friends appear behind him)

(Connor runs at Daryl and aims a punch)

(Daryl fires his gun)

OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS!

Are kore kakaekonde omoeba iranai mono made

(Shows Connor sitting with his head between his legs)

Umaku naru iiwake to myou

(Shows Ruby sitting inside of Connor's head with her legs drawn up to her chest)

na PURIADO!

(Shows Kalos sitting on top of the stone wall)

Jibun wo tana ni agete (Shows Jim, Yang, Kane, Irileth, Mars, and Stephane standing in Dust Valley, their hair and clothesflapping in the wind)

hito no koto aadakouda!

(Shows Murlough standing on the naval platform amongst the dead bodies of the generals)

Iu tsumori mo nai kedo!

(Zooms in on Murlough's face as he punches his hand and grins evilly)

Mukishitsuni

(Shows Daryl towards someone) Mawaru Tic and Tac!

(Shows Damien walking towards Daryl)

Ganbaru tte

(Connor and Kane approach Daryl from either side)

nandarou!

(Connor and Kane charge at Daryl) Attention! Question! Nantonaku nagasateru socchi no mizu wa (Shows Connor and Kane fighting Daryl with their semblances)

amai desuka!

(They hit Daryl's air current barrier with their golden light and black clouds)

YES/NO!

(Shows Isabella in tattered clothes with purple energy around her) YES/NO!

(Shows Mars with green energy around him)

Atari mimawashita totan ni!

(They shoot their energy blasts at each other)

Koko dake

(Connor goes into Dragon State and launches himself off a rock face)

toki ga tomaru

(He flies out and hits Daryl) COLOUR!

(Shows a massive light in Dust Valley)

(Shows Connor on the naval platform)

(Shows Murlough on the naval platform)

(Shows Murlough and Connor looking at each other from afar, Murlough with black clouds trailing from him, Connor with golden light trailing from one hand and black clouds trailing from the other) (They charge at each other)

END

An hour earlier...

Isabella opened her eyes, her vision blurry and shaky. The last thing she remembered was being hit by Kane's massive sword and losing consciousness. He had probably assumed she was dead, but he was wrong. She had survived, she knew that. She could at least make out that she was still on the naval platform. She moved her hand down her body, checking for broken bones or any other kinds of wounds, but found something else. Her armour had been stripped off of her and she was in just her underclothes, a tank top and baggy army jeans.

"Ooh, yeah. Just like that. Keep it going." She heard a voice say, followed by the same voice humming rhythmically. She say herself up, straining her bruised body as she rose, but feeling somewhat better already. Looking to her left, she found the source of the noise. Murlough, in his shiny metal body, was sitting on a piece of rubble and staring at a curvy lady made out of his dark clouds, which was wearing Isabella's wrecked armour. Murlough was watching the lady dance and sway side to side, but shortly after Isabella saw him there, he stood up and dismissed the dark clouds with a grunt and a swipe of his hand, grabbing the armour chest piece before it fell to the ground and observing it.

"That's mine..." Isabella weakly muttered, her voice croaky as her throat was dry as the Sahara. Murlough looked as if he thought he'd imagined the noise, then turned his head and saw Isabella slowly rising to her feet and wobbling.

"I don't care, it's busted." Murlough replied grumpily, tossing the armour aside as if all his interest in it had vanished in that second. "Looks as if someone put it through a crusher, it's probably not even worth anything anymore."

"Why are you out? Where are the attackers?" Isabella questioned him, getting a little steadier on her feet and trying to regulate her panicked breathing.

"Well I came out because you lot got your arses kicked. Although, I got mine kicked a little too. I'll get 'em back though." Murlough answered, picking up a small rock and crushing it in his steel hand. "As for the attackers, Connor and his gang of idiots, they went off to the mainland after Daryl."

"Master Daryl?! They're going to fight him?! Try to kill him?!" Isabella exclaimed, her panic coming back to her as she feared for her commanders well being. She stopped there however, not expecting an answer, as she had suddenly begun to glow purple.

"Ah, that happened a couple of times while you were out too. It looks to me like the same kind of energy that Mars uses, the arsehole." Murlough told her. "I guess it means you've finally unlocked your semblance, congratulations."

Isabella didn't appreciate his fake sounding praise, but she did appreciate her new semblance. With this new power, she could help Master Daryl defeat the attackers. She knew they were at the mainland and she knew which direction to go. Feeling determined, the purple energy around intensified, spiking off like lightning as she stared out at the sea.

In a flash she was off, speeding across the water and leaving a trail of purple behind her. Murlough could do nothing but sit still and watch as she left him, sinking into a pool of boredom. If he tried to fly to the mainland, he'd likely run out of aura before he reached it, and so was stuck. "I wish I could walk on water." He muttered grumpily to himself as he went back to crushing rocks.

Present Time...

"So that's the story? You luckily survived Kane's attack and came here with your new semblance to fight us and help out your master?" Mars said as Isabella stared him down from across the valley, Damien standing next to him. "I gotta say, you really are loyal."

"My new semblance seems to be just like yours, from what I saw of you on the battlefield." Isabella responded in a serious tone. "Purple energy instead of green, but just as lethal and just as powerful."

"Just as powerful huh?" Mars repeated, smirking confidently. "You really think your power is equal to mine?"

Music: http/youtu.be/cWiWGojPXNs [Fairy Tail OST- Tai Ma Gekisen]

"I'll prove it!" Isabella responded, thrusting her palm out in front of her and calling on her newly obtained semblance. Purple, lightning like energy shot out of her hand, just like Mars' except purple. The energy travelled quickly towards Mars and hit his arm as he raised it in front of his face. For a moment Isabella thought she had hurt him, but his arm then became surrounded by his green energy, the purple energy hitting his arm clashing with it. He then swiped his arm to the side, effortlessly shrugging off Isabella's attack.

"It did nothing?!" Isabella said out loud, shocked at her attacks uselessness. Before she had time to try again, Mars punched forward into the air with the arm he had blocked the first shot with. A spilt second after he did so, the lightning like, a burst of green energy much wide and taller erupted out from his fist like a cannon shot. The blast ravaged across the valley towards Isabella, who was only able to avoid being hit by throwing herself to the side. The blast kept going though, smashing into the cliff face and creating a humongous crack as if it had been savaged by an earthquake, a similar trail being left in its path.

Mars was quick to follow up with another similar blast, aiming it at Isabella's other side, which she was now falling towards. She had no time to correct her trajectory but, luckily for her, was only grazed by the crazily powerful and destructive blast that shot past her. The grazing alone knocked her back however, her purple energy saving her from major injury, but still not protecting her from sustaining more bruising.

Wasting no time in his deadly assault, Mars then took of his cloak and threw it to the side, also unbuttoning his shirt. Damien recognised this little ritual all too well as the sign that Mars was about go into Mystic State. Sure enough, the green energy around Mars became a hundred times more intense, it surrounding his entire body like vibrant green thunder as his eyes glowed the same colour. He had entered Mystic State so early on in the battle, a sign that he wasn't messing around and truly meant to give his opponent no mercy. He hadn't even done that in his fight against Connor and Kane, during which he had promised to go all out, he had waited to see if he would need to. Here though, he was not waiting. "That power...it's amazing." Damien muttered to himself as he stared in awe.

Finally being able to strike once again, Isabella shot another purple blast at Mars, much thinner and smaller than the ones she had just been attacked with. Mars crossed his arms over his chest to block the blast, once again shrugging it off without even trying. Isabella then fired a blast from her other hand, which Mars didn't even block and took straight to the chest, but didn't even flinch. Growing a little intimidated, Isabella shot a slightly bigger purple blast of energy from both her hands. This time, Mars countered it with a blast of his own, although a much smaller blast than he had before. It still got the job done, completely eradicating Isabella's attack. "You think a tiny little blast like that can do anything against my kind of power?!" Mars shouted to her, purposefully intimidatingly. "You may have a similar semblance to mine, but you are a novice and I am a master!"

"Now you're just showing off." Damien mumbled to himself, quiet enough that Mars wouldn't here him, even though he spoke the truth.

Before Isabella could throw another attack at him, Mars suddenly rushed forward and appeared in front of her in a blaze of green light, his hands joined together above his head and collecting more and more green energy. It quickly built up and become more volatile, then Mars swung his fists down and yelled, "Energy Hammer!" He then slammed the energy collected in his fists into the ground in front of Isabella, even just a near miss throwing her backwards brutally as the ground crumbled beneath her and green energy shot out all over.

Not giving her a chance to recover, Mars then punched the air again as the green energy moved around his hand in a different way and yelled, "Energy Spiral!" When the energy launched out this time, it did so in a spiralling fashion, creating an enormous swirling vortex of green thunderous energy. Isabella was this time caught right in the middle of the attack, and was thrown backwards screaming in pain. The rocky ground was ripped apart by the spiral too. Isabella only stopped when she hit the cliff face with a crash.

Mars then charged up for an even more powerful attack, concentrating his aura in his fists as he held his hands together in a ball. He then held his hands at his left side and swung them forward whilst shouting, "Secret Art! Energy Drill!" As he did so, a massive beam of rotating energy came blasting out of thin air, headed for Isabella. The blast was the same attack Mars had used to finish off Jorge of the four generals, but while it was still spinning like a drill, it came from thin air this time instead of from the sky. Mars swiftly followed up by holding his two hands by his right side and swinging them forward in the same motion, sending a second Energy Drill towards Isabella.

Isabella didn't even have time to prepare for the hit, but luckily for her the blasts hit the rock face above her. For a moment she thought Mars had missed, but soon realised he had done it on purpose, the the reason of creating a rockfall. The blasts had smashed the cliff face to pieces and chunks of rock were now falling down towards her. Mars wasn't finished there however, he sped up above all of the rocks and then spread his green energy over all of them, speeding and powering them up. Similarly to Kane's Dark Rain, but much more powerful, the rocks crashed into the ground creating an enormous green explosion that engulfed most of that end of the valley. Damien was almost blown away by the gust it created, which also blew up a cloud of dust.

Mars reappeared next to Damien seconds later, having returned to his normal state but still with no cloak and an unbuttoned shirt. He no longer had his green energy surrounding him, but did not look tired, suggesting that he had exited Mystic State of his own accord instead of running out of aura. He assumed the battle to be over.

That was however, not the case. When the dust settled, Isabella could be seen standing amongst what was left of the valley floor. Mars and Damien spied the remnants of a purple shield she had erected disappearing, but had hadn't been enough to fully protect her. She was more bruised than before, very severely at this point, and was barely standing straight on her feet. "You're a stubborn one, aren't you?" Mars teased, seeing she was in bad shape. "That'll teach you to underestimate me, your novice skills with that semblance are nothing compared to mine."

Despite his taunting and her injuries, Isabella tried to move forward. She staggered and almost fell but kept going, intent on carrying on the fight. "You should just lay down and give up." Damien advised her. "You can't win against Mars, he's one of the strongest hunters I know, possibly one of the strongest alive."

"I will not fall..." Isabella weakly replied, defying her enemies wishes even in her agony. "I will...make Master Daryl proud..."

Music: http/youtu.be/Yd4834VoAq0 [Fairy Tail OST- Black Wizard Heart]

While all that was happening over on Mars and Damien's side of the valley, Connor and Kane were still busy fighting Daryl.

"Take one to the face already!" Connor yelled angrily, his temper growing at his inability to land any hits on his opponent due to the air shield. He then launched a punch at Daryl, his fist shining with golden light, but it didn't even make it close. Daryl's air barrier had formed a sphere around him, meaning that no attacks would get through. So it was that Connor's punch was unable to penetrate the barrier and Connor himself was pushed back by the air currents.

Kane was quick on the ball to strike next, kicking out at Daryl with a dark cloud covered boot. Once again however, the attack was blocked by the air currents with next to no effort from Daryl, and Kane was sent flying backwards. "That's starting to really annoy me now, you bastard!" He snapped, getting just as mad as Connor was.

"Your pathetic excuses for attacks have no hope of breaking through my semblances defensive capabilities, you will die by my hand." Daryl replied sternly, holding his sword towards them and readying for a strike. He was quickly distracted however, by a fiery blast hitting his air barrier and creating a small cloud of smoke. Looking round just as Connor and Kane also did, he saw Yang, Stephane, Nora, Jim and Irileth running towards him. Acting before they could shoot at him again, Daryl raised a hand in their direction and unleashed his wind currents upon them like a powerful hurricane, making them stop in their tracks and cling to each other to avoid flying backwards.

Fortunately Kane was ready to help, tackling himself into the side of Daryl's air barrier whilst covered in dark clouds. The attack served as a useful distraction, drawing Daryl's attention away from the others for a short moment and giving them time to reach the battle. Stephane was the first to strike, swinging his great-sword from right to left and slamming it into the side of Daryl's air barrier, having no effect. Daryl pushed his air currents outwards again to try to deter Stephane, but he used his semblance to keep his feet lodged on the ground. Stephane then charged his semblance into his sword, costing it with a sea blue aura, then swung it downwards at Daryl. Of course the hit was blocked once again by the air currents and once again Daryl pushed it away, but this time Stephane's sword flew out of his hand, snapping in two as it hit the ground. Stephane groaned in annoyance, using his semblance on his shield to protect from the next blast of air currents.

Next up, Yang came rushing up front and starting smashing into Daryl's barrier as hard as she could, sending splinters of shotguns shells everywhere in her fiery rage. Getting nowhere, she smashed her fists together to activate her semblance and increase her power tenfold, then smashed her fist into the barrier one more time. Daryl was ever so slightly pushed backwards by that hit, but was still unharmed thanks to his barrier, and swiftly pushed Yang away.

Thirdly, Irileth's purple energy whips came swinging in from afar as she leapt forward. Daryl slashed with his sword, slicing right through the whips and rendering them useless. Irileth thought quickly and changed her weapons into pistol mode, then began firing small rounds of purple energy at Daryl's barrier. Yang promptly joined in and began shooting balls of flame from her gauntlets, but all the gunfire still had no effect. Daryl once again pushed them away, except this time they managed to grab onto Stephane's shield before being blown too far away, it still being firmly planted in the ground.

Running past those three and heading straight for the target next were Nora and Jim. The two of them ran right in front of Daryl, Nora swinging her sledgehammer and Jim punching with his strength enhanced fist. Still no effect was seen, and the two of them were sent skidding back on their buttocks by the air currents.

"Does nothing get through this bastards semblance?" Connor exclaimed in his fury of not being able to land any hits. He ran at Daryl again from the left, Kane running from the right. As the two of them thrust their fists towards him on opposite sides, Daryl stuck his hands out to both sides and pushed with his air currents. Connor and Kane's punches both hit the barrier, but managed to not be blown back, at least at first. They both struggled to walk through the hurricane speed winds, Kane's dark clouds trailing off behind him and Connor's golden light doing the same. After realising they weren't being pushed back, Daryl increased his semblances force, blasting them back with his strongest gust yet. Both of them went flying backwards into the cliffs on either sides of the valley, breaking the rock where they impacted.

[Stop Music]

"What a pathetic attempt, I don't know how you invigorated such anger in me earlier, you are nothing." Daryl sneered at them as the others looked on in worry at Kane and Connor wobbling on their feet. The two of them were badly injured after being slammed into the rock, covered in terrible bruises.

"We won't let you get away with saying that...bastard." Connor replied sternly, both him and Kane becoming more steady on their feet. "Saying we're pathetic and weak...we'll change your mind..."

"We'll beat it into you!"

Ending Music: http/youtu.be/YRLW-llroVw [Fuyugyaku Replace]

! Means a beat in the music

Wake in loneliness! Loneliness!

(Shows Connor standing on the naval platform)

Falling inside your story!

(Shows Murlough standing opposite him)

Walking after you! After you! (Zooms in Connor's face)

I will share my time!

(Shows naval platform)

(Shows Connor in Dragon State) OUTCASTS AND OUTLAWS Maykoinda sekai de!

(Shows young Connor in front of his parents bodies)

Boku no kage to kasanatte

(Shows Murlough in Connor's hometown)

Ima! I can't go back!

(Shows Connor losing control of the dark clouds in his hometown) Ketteiteki no boku shoumei wa! (Shows Connor in his original outfit) Jidai wo ima koete monogataru! (Shows Ruby reach out in front of her)

I will be the brand new age!

(Shows Team Kalos and Allies) Yeah! From this day!

(Shows young Connor and Murlough walking)

I will save myself!

(Shows Connor with Kane's shadow behind him)

And the time is now!

(Connor opens his eyes, one is black, one is gold)

Kill my weakness!

(Shows Connor in his original outfit running towards volume 2 Murlough)

Weakness!

(They change to their volume 3 versions)

Kanarazu koete naite satte!

(Shows a flashback of the Murlough VS Connor fight from volume 2)

And I stay alive!

(Their semblances hit each other) Alive!

(Shows the naval base in a fiery explosion)

Saigo wo shinjitaku wa nakute! (Shows Connor's village being destroyed by black clouds)

Kill my weakness! Weakness! (Shows Murlough summoning dark clouds all around him)

Itsuka kidsuita to shita mo!

(Shows Connor going into Dragon State)

I will prove myself that I have lived today!

(Shows Connor and Murlough fighting in their most powerful states)

Starting now!

(They both hit each other's fists and let off their semblances)

END