Chapter five:
"Alright is everything ready?" Ray asks.
"Yes. And since Geoff will send these minions he summoned to secure the city just in case I called Rooster teeth." Jack nods.
"And?" Ryan raises an eyebrow. He's wearing a black t-shirt, dark brown pants, gold armour that is around his neck and covers his chest reaching around to his back. He also has gold admired shoes that reach up to his knees and on his arms from his wrist to his elbow is gold armour. He also has his Mad King crown on his head.
"They have agreed to take care of the minions and knowing Geoff he will hold off the killing to make sure the problem can be dealt with. This will give you time to wait for the perfect opportunity to go to move in and attack." Jack explains. "After all he won't just leave them in the middle of town so he'll stay there. If Gus has let Geoff have some of his powers then you might have to break through a crystal barrier to get to him. He won't cast the spell to make everyone within the crystal not be able to use magic. He'll want to fight if needed."
"Seems everything is in order then." Ryan nods.
Ray looks down at the object in his hand. He's wearing his X-ray outfit since after planning he had to get ready, but since he had to put the armour on he had to use his X-ray outfit since that's what the armour was made for. He has his cape put through a part of the armour made to let his cape not be trapped against his body by the armour just in case if it was pressed against him it makes him unable to fight as he could have. His armour is like Ryans but a silver blue colour and instead of a crown he has a silver blue smooth helmet that mostly covers his head going down to be by his jaw though leaving his ears out in the open. So he can hear fine.
The object that Ray has in his hand is the missing piece of Ryan's mad king crown.
Just a little bit ago Ryan gave Ray the piece he had been holding onto to act like a lucky charm for him. Plus it also makes them feel much closer together almost like a promise ring.
Ray smiles gently bringing the piece to his chest closing his eyes softly.
"Ready?"
Ray opens his eyes and looks to Ryan. "Yeah." He puts the piece in his pocket and zips it closed to keep it safe.
"Then let's go." Ryan says and he leads Ray out of the room to go meet with the Rooster teeth group that will act like an army to allow Ray and Ryan to get to Geoff. "Onward!" He declares and off they go towards the city since they had to meet at the Rooster teeth building that was placed outside of the city.
The Rooster teeth people wanted some peace from the city so they have their building outside of the city.
Ray and Ryan walk off the path they were following to go to a cliff so they can look over the city.
The Rooster teeth people charge running for the city as the two watch.
Let the first part of the battle begin.
...
"Hmm..." Geoff turns. "Something doesn't feel right." He says to himself and he turns to glance around at the city only seeing a few minions that are just hanging around anywhere where there is people watching. "Something is up."
A minion, which are just dark figures, comes dashing over to Geoff. "Sir!" He pants. "We're under attack!"
Geoff growls slightly then smirks. "I doubt that they'll get very far." He says then glances over his shoulder to Gavin. "I will deal with you a little later." He turns back to the minion. "Fight them. They surely cannot be strong enough to go against us."
"Yes sir." The minion dashes off after that.
"Just to be safe." Geoff raises his hands to about his chest with his palms facing up like he's holding two balls and creates a black crystal one floor building slightly shaped like a castle but with no doors and windows are clear crystal. He also makes sure to send some black crystals to the road and sidewalks around the area to try to keep ground forces from getting through. "There." He lowers his hands to his sides. "Now we shall wait and see how things go."
Those sitting behind him hope that Geoff's minions loose the fight.
...
Ryan and Ray watch as it seems that the Rooster teeth people are winning. They also had watched the formation of the crystal meant to be a shield that Geoff created. They watch for a little bit longer before Ray finally speaks.
"Coward." Ray says. "Walled up in his fortress like it's a tomb."
"Our ground forces won't be able to get past the crystal field." Ryan points out. "And because of who we are going against we can't just give them wings to try to help attack Geoff." He adds.
"Yeah." Ray says with a nod.
"We don't need a big window of attack. He's lost a lot of ground." Ryan continues. "The others should be able to finish off the minions."
"And if they don't?" Ray turns to the other who glances to him.
"Why would they fail?" Ryan asks.
"Just looking at scenarios." Ray shrugs.
Ryan closes his eyes for a moment. "Well hypothetically speaking." He opens his eyes and summons his weapon from what looks like light which is a gold halberd that looks like a normal weapon. "We are prepared just in case."
"Hm." Ray smiles and turns back to the city. "It is obvious that Geoff or Gus or whoever he is right now doesn't know what forces he is up against." He says confidently. "Let us not make his end be much longer." He summons a silver blue sword with a navy blue handle, and it even has the parts of the handle at the top that stick out that are in the shape of crescent moons on the sides, from what looks like shadows. He jumps down from the edge of the cliff since they right now no longer need to hide so they can use their powers to be fine.
Plus they will have to fly past the crystal field and up to a weaker spot of the crystal castle like shield to crash through.
Ryan follows behind after Ray.
Back with the others...
Geoff had turned to glance to the others in his crystal shield but he closes his eyes and turns so his back is to Gavin again. "We have company." He states.
Suddenly two people crash through one of the clear crystal windows.
Geoff opens his eyes and looks to the two as they float side by side.
The twos figures become black shapes to anyone below them as they prepare a ball of magic energy that's like a light; by touching their fingertips so it comes together to form a bigger one with less effort put in. They throw the ball of energy right at Geoff together flicking their wrists while slightly moving like they are tossing something at the same time to make it go.
It crashes into Geoff with a heavy crashing sound with brown dust now in the air blocking their view.
The ones watching kind of need to block the dust from their eyes but they can still kind of see.
"Is that it?" Ray asks as him and Ryan watch the dust as they keep themselves floating in the air.
Suddenly as the dust quickly clears Geoff suddenly appears on top of a black crystal that pins Ryan to the black crystal wall in the spot where the wall took over the broken window.
Ray turns slightly wide eyed in surprise as he turns to get ready to fight and he barely has time to notice the black and grey scythe that the other has.
Geoff quickly slashes at Ray hitting the armour but managing to knock him away to the ground, between where Gavin is and where Geoff is, in the area where he crashes dust surrounds him for a moment. He turns as some light begins to appear where Ryan is trapped only for the crystal to be broken. He jumps back just before the crystal breaks as Ryan uses the wall to push himself forward.
Ryan swings his halberd straight for Geoff who counters it with a swing of his scythe causing the two weapons to clash.
The crystal that broke disappears in a quick black flame that lasts only for a moment.
Ray shifts from his back where he landed to his stomach and pushes himself up with his hands on the ground by the area where his chest was. He hears something and glances back with a gasp.
There is a group of small pointed black crystals turned in his direction.
Ray notices that his sword had been knocked away from him, probably when he was sent crashing to the ground, too far to reach right away. So he brings an arm up to create a shield from his magic only having to slightly move his arm to deflect all of the crystals. He lets the shield vanish and he rolls towards his sword picking it up as he rolls over it just in time to dodge the next attack that was heading his way.
The bigger black crystal, that is the next attack that was heading for him, that he spotted slams down to the ground where he was.
All crystals that missed or were deflected disappear in a flash of black fire.
Ryan had jumped away to avoid an attack so now him and Ray, who gets to his feet slightly sliding a little since he sprung up, have now moved so they are seemed to have switched sides. Ryan on the side of Geoff that Gavin's on and Ray on the other side of Geoff.
Ryan concentrates and his body gets slightly enveloped in a soft light before he speeds towards Geoff with his weapon pointed at him.
At the same time Ray prepares instead choosing to use three magic circle looking circles and goes faster seeming to go through them picking up speed through each one.
Once he's through all three they disappear and now both Ray and Ryan are charging towards Geoff at a great speed.
Geoff looks down and gets an idea. He slams the bottom of the scythe on the ground causing black shadow like tentacles to appear on each side that is about to be attacked.
Ray and Ryan slam into the darkness yet are stopped in their tracks.
Geoff quickly raises his scythe up to about chest height causing the darkness that stopped the two to shoot out pushing Ray and Ryan diagonally upwards to be pinned against the walls back in the direction they had just charged from.
Ray is pinned to the wall by a dark crystal that is around his torso down to the top of his thighs keeping him there. His body is still partially free since the crystal only reaches a little below his armpits leaving his arms and shoulders free. He also has his legs below the top of his thighs free. He hunched over slightly resting his arms and his sword on top of the crystal now loosely holding the sword. He's out of the fight at the moment as he tries to figure out a way to break the crystal and not hurt himself.
The way he's positioned if he breaks the part holding him then the shards could be sharp and hurt him.
That wouldn't be any good since Geoff, who seems to also have a mix of Gus's powers at the moment, is powerful enough it would become a risk of actually loosing if he's hurt.
He'll let Ryan take care of Geoff at the moment.
Ryan is being surrounded by the black crystal as if to help hold him in place this time but he glares at the crystal as he begins to get his powers ready.
There's a gleam where Ryan is trapped getting Geoff to slightly turn in that direction.
Ryan uses his power he gathered in a blast to destroy the crystal around him. He makes himself float moving to the side around what's left of the crystal and he charges towards Geoff. He lands on the ground and a split second after he slams the halberd down onto the ground.
But Geoff had moved away into the slight dust that has stirred up a little from the breaking of the crystal that had tried to trap him, that is now disappearing in a black flame, and when Ryan landed as well as tried to attack Geoff vanishes as if into darkness.
The others who are just watching look surprised that it's Ryan.
Ryan removes his halberd from the ground and looks up then slightly back over his shoulder angry. "Show yourself! You coward!" He calls ignoring the spectators.
There's evil laughter around him and he turns ready to strike whenever needed.
Suddenly Geoff appears behind him right as the dust seems to vanish but Ryan seems to be able to sense it and spins around just in time to knock away the scythe that tried to attack away with his own weapon.
Not giving Geoff any time to recover he slams the halberd into Geoffs chest and it seems like it's going through some kind of black portal or something.
Geoff's grip loosens on his scythe as he stares surprised that Ryan had managed to get him.
"It's over Gus." Ryan says. "We know that you've at least influenced Geoff." He informs the other. "So yield!" He demands slightly raising the halberd in warning.
Geoff blinks and his eyes turn fully red and gain dark purple flame like tails coming from the edges of his eyes as they are visible but slightly see through and are shimmering like in a breeze with ends pointed to the back of his head.
"Your eyes... So I see... Gus is in control now." Ryan says mostly to himself.
"So much hatred and anger." Geoff being controlled by Gus says almost as if in satisfaction.
Ryan looks down to the halberd knowing that Geoff is about to attack. He tries to pull it out needing to dodge the attack.
The scythe is raised and swung just as Ryan gets the halberd free before jumping back. The scythe ends up slamming against the ground instead of into Ryan.
Ryan has his halberd raised ready to fight.
Geoff removes the scythe from the ground and walks towards Ryan. "You were saying something about cowardliness." He begins and Ryan's eyes narrow. "But it appears that you have forgotten whose domain you are in."
Ryan swings his halberd upwards hitting Geoff making him stop walking letting out a grunt of pain as he is hit. He then slams his halberd into the scythe to hold off an attack that Geoff tries to swing at him. "I don't care what path you've taken Gus." He says strongly as he glares into Geoff's eyes as best as he can since they are just all red. He moves the halberd back to try to attack the side but Geoff blocks the attack with his scythe. "You will fail."
"It's as I thought." Geoff closes his eyes as his voice start to sound like a normal person talking but a mix of Gus and Geoff speaking. "Even the so called Gods lack purity in their hearts. All of them." He opens his eyes and tries to attack the other side with his scythe but Ryan manages to stop it with his halberd. "I can taste your anger and hatred." He tries to swing the scythe downwards onto Ryan but Ryan using the halberd's handle to catch the curve of the scythes blade; and the two are pushing against each other now instead of just stopping for a moment like they were doing before. "And it is deliciously entertaining."
Ryan blinks as his rage consumes him causing his eyes to turn fully white. "Silence you fucker!" He pushes Geoff away mostly by where their weapons are pushing each other and jumps back slightly before shooting a beam of light from the top of his halberd to towards Geoff who smirks.
Geoff disappears slightly just before the beam hits him causing it to hit the base of the crystal holding Ray.
As dust flies into the air from the impact Ryan raises an arm to slightly shield his face with one arm being brought up, as well as keeping the eye closest to where Geoff was closed with his other eye open to try to spot Geoff.
The crystal holding Ray cracks and Rays eyes snap open only to look up slightly worriedly to look for Ryan.
He only sees dust then a flash of light comes from a spot in the dust for a moment. He closes his eyes and gathers his magic to prepare knowing that he now has to take the risk of injuring himself to get free. He picks up his sword with his magic to leave his hands free to use his magic to destroy the crystal then he gets ready to use the magic he has prepared to destroy the crystal.
The others are watching as the dust begins to clear to show that Ryan is lying on the ground on his side with his back to Geoff.
Ryan's face is not showing the peaceful sleeping face but the upset face that is of someone in a nightmare. His halberd had disappeared in the time that he was struck with the spell in which it disappeared like the way he had summoned it.
Geoff stands there smirking. "You will die while being inside of a nightmare." He says crouching. "A nightmare that is of your worst fear." He says. "It's too bad that not all of my powers were brought back when I got into this body. Or else I would have just made you be in your worst fear. But in a way Geoff's ability over dreams does come in handy here."
"Now I'm curious. What is his worst fear?" Rusty asks.
Geoff smirks. "To lose the one he cares for most all over again." He gets up and raises the scythe over his head ready to swing it down towards Ryan.