Hello, and as I said last time, I am starting a new thing at the beginning and end of my chapters, but before that, let's do the fun fact of the week. Fun Fact Of The Week: To those of you who have gotten to this point in the anime, I originally thought that the Jiggle Jugs Gang members wee just really fat and ugly women until the dub actually added the extra detail that they were men.
Nicholai: You seriously thought that?
Sayume: We weren't even there and we knew that.
Both: Somehooowwww...
Me: Well thanks for ruining the surprise you two.
Both: You are very welcome.
Me: Yes viewers, I am going to start commentary with the characters before and after each chapter. So, how well do you think you are going to be able to deal with the Oracion Seis?
Sayume: Well, that depends, because I really have no idea how strong they are.
Nicholai: Yeah, me neither.
Me: Well, I guess we'll just have to see.
I almost went deaf from the sound of my own scream. Once the slight ringing in my ears passed, I turned to face Sayume. With his ears still over his head Sayume asked me, "Can I put my hands down?" I almost spoke to him until I remembered he wouldn't be able to hear me, so I gave him a thumbs up. "Alright," he put his hands down, "so what are we going to do for these next three weeks?" "Well, even though I'm pretty sure I would be able to beat him either way, I think it would be best that we train with each other, just in case he doesn't come alone." "Alright," Sayume activated his stronger form and grabbed his staff, "might as well start now then." I tried to answer without hurting Sayume's feelings, "Ok, but are you sure you're strong enough to actually spar with me?" "Yeah, over these past three months, I've been training myself in my spare time." I lit my fists, slightly holding back due to my fear of harming Sayume. "If that is the case, then get over here." He ran at me with surprising speed, and before I could even try to counter, he got himself in a position under me, with his staff directly in between the ground and me. Sayume extended the staff even further, sending me flying back about ten feet. "Not to be rude," Sayume stood at rest, "but if you hold back, this obviously won't be a fair fight." I realized my mistake, "Alright, get ready because I'm not going to be holding anything back!" Sayume smirked, "Bring it on!"
*3 weeks later*
Sayume and I stood side by side, waiting for Cobra. "Be ready Nicholai, I can tell already, he's heading here with the rest of his guild lagging not too far behind him." "It doesn't matter to me, so long as he shows up, I'm satisfied. Even if I have to fight the rest of his guild first, I will avenge my parents." I began to see the maroon hair, tanned skin, and soon the black, snakelike eyes that supposedly belonged to Erik. Alongside him was a gargantuan purple snake that appeared to move in harmony with Cobra, "Hopefully they don't fight that harmoniously." I thought. Erik spoke up, "So, the Grim Reaper has deemed it to be my turn to suffer. Even after hearing your conversations with Raniel and Erigor, I'm not scared of you." Despite the hate I felt at the moment, I couldn't help but grin, "That's easy to say when you have a giant snake to hide behind, and one of the strongest dark guilds tailing you." He seemed frustrated when I said that, "How could you possibly know that?" "Well," I turned towards Sayume, "why don't you tell him yourself Sayume?" Sayume became slightly nervous, though he still spoke with great confidence, "Well, I have the natural ability to sense far off energies, so detecting someone from that distance is child's play." I turned back towards the now slightly enraged poisonous dragon slayer, beginning to prepare myself for a fight, "Sorry about that Erik, but you won't be able to pull something like that on us. Sayume, if you want, you can go ahead and try and hold off the rest of his guild while I take care of him." "Alright, don't get yourself killed." "The same goes for you." As Sayume began to fly off, Erik formed a ball of poison around his hand "DON'T YOU IGNORE ME!" He shot an orb of poison towards Sayume. I left him completely dumbfounded when I caught up to it and hit it off course before it was even halfway towards Sayume. Despite all of this, he grinned, "Finally, someone who it is actually worth my time to fight." I wasn't going to give him time to act arrogant, "FIRE DRAGON ROAR!" He was ready for me, "POISON DRAGON ROAR!" His attack countered mine perfectly, "Now, Cubellios!" The giant snake of his rushed me from the left, knocking me back several feet. "So, this must be how he uses that ability of his to hear my thoughts. That'll be a giant pain in the ass to deal with." I said out loud, not caring, as he would be able to hear me either way. I grabbed my scythe, surrounding it with my flames and preparing myself to launch an attack. I charged at Erik, and just as I was in front of him, I ran around behind him as fast as I could while also turning to my right, switching my scythe over to my right hand. It lasted only for a moment, but for me it almost seemed like an eternity. With all of the force I could muster, I swung my scythe at his face. Erik ducked under my attack, and seized the opportunity to lunge at me. I grinned; I swung my left hand that I had set ablaze while turning straight towards his face. He took a direct hit, knocking him back a good distance. "Just because you can hear my thoughts doesn't mean you're fast enough to counter my attacks that I think up!" That snake of his slithered over to him, helping him get back to his feet. "Well, that's where my magic is going to be a problem for you. How does that arm of yours that you used to block my attack feel?" I had tried to ignore it, but my arm felt heavier, more difficult to move. "My poison will slowly weaken you, and with enough exposure, kill you. Cubellios, take flight." The snake that he had with him somehow grew a pair of bat-like wings as Erik walked to stand on top of it. While it took off, Erik slowly grew scales and claws on his arms. He grinned, "POISON DRAGON SCALES!" He swung his arms furiously, sending a barrage of poisonous shots directly towards me. "FIRE DRAGON'S FLIGHT!" I launched myself into the air, seamlessly evading Cobra's attack, and charging towards him. "GET OVER HERE!" Just as I was in front of him, he screamed, "POISON DRAGON'S TWIN FANG!" His attack almost caused me to completely fall out of the sky. He didn't stop there, as he cloaked his hand in poison once again, he jumped off of his snake and straight towards me, "Now, POISON DRAGON SHARP HORN!" I was hit square in my abdomen with the relative force of a train, and with the poison to boot, I blacked out.
When I regained consciousness, I realized I was on the ground, slightly buried in the snow. There was a huge pain in my chest. As my vision cleared, I began to see Erik with his foot firmly planted on my solar plexus. "Nicholai, oh Niiicholaiiii. You awake?" It was difficult to speak with all of the poison in my system, "You, yo- AAAHHHHHH!" He pushed his foot even deeper into my chest. "What was that? Sorry, I couldn't hear you over that broken rib!" He spoke in a condescending tone. He lifted his foot while covering it in poison and pointing it right at my face, "Tell your parents Cobra says hello when you see them in the afterlife." Something in me snapped. He sent his foot flying towards my face, only for me to catch it in my hand. I pushed him back with as much force as I could bring out. I jumped to my feet, ignoring the pain in my chest. Erik was dumbfounded, "How can you be standing up after all of that? I guess you just need more poison. POISON DRAGON ROAR!" I knew it would be dangerous, but it was the only way to defeat him in the state I was in. I made no attempt to dodge or counter the attack and waited for it to reach me. I stopped the attack once it reached me by inhaling the poison just as I would with any fire. Once I had ingested all of the toxins, I prepared for either death or an extreme power surge. I felt a sudden rise in my magic power, and I grinned, "Now I've got his power and no Sayume to stop me this time. Perfect. ERIK, YOU'LL WISH YOU NEVER WENT AS FAR AS YOU DID!" I charged at him, cloaking myself in my flames and his poison. He looked absolutely terrified, "H-how, HOW DID YOU INGEST MY POISON?" "YOU SHOULD NEVER MESS WITH A FAIRY TAIL WIZARD, ESPECIALLY A DRAGONSLAYER!" He made an attempt to swing at me; I easily dodged it and jumped directly over him. "POISONOUS FLAME DRAGON ROAR!" My attack slammed him directly into the ground, almost causing an avalanche. I quickly grabbed my scythe, cloaking it in both poison and fire, "NOW, DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART: FLAME LOTUS: POISON SCYTHE JUDGEMENT!" I spun myself down to him with as much speed as I could, "TAKE THIS YOU MURDEROUS BASTARD!" The resulting explosion blew up the cliff we had been fighting on, sending him down the edge of the mountain while I used my fire to hover over the chasm. "If that attack wasn't enough, then that avalanche and rockslide sure finished him. I'd better go check on Sayume."
I flew down to where I found Sayume and the rest of Oracion Seis's members fighting. To my surprise, Sayume had already taken down three of the members. One was a woman who was wearing what almost looked like a dress of feathers, another was a man wearing weird sunglasses with a large, yellow Mohawk, and the last one was a bulky man with a blocky jaw line. Sayume was on both of his knees, panting. He was no longer in his battle state, and looked like he had taken quite a beating. I walked over to him, ignoring the other two wizards who were about fifty feet away from him. "Hey Sayume, you need a hand?" He smiled, "No matter what the situation, you always manage to make me smile. I hope by "give me a hand" you mean help me get out of here, because I can tell you're running low on energy too." When he said that, I truly realized how exhausted I was, "Yeah, I do hate to admit it, but I can't fight these guys like this, although I doubt that we will be able to simply run away." "It probably won't work," Sayume said as he stood up. "But let me see if I could talk to him." I didn't have any other option, "Go ahead." Sayume slowly approached the two wizards, of whom I realized one was sleeping on a magic carpet. Sayume slowly spoke, "I-I'm sure as a dark guild you have important business to attend to, and you probably don't have the time to deal with weaklings like us. We will walk away right now and leave you to anything you were already doing should you allow us." Suprisingly, the man appeared to take what Sayume said into consideration. "Fine, leave now." Despite speaking with reluctance, he did not appear to try anything. Sayume quickly walked over to me. "Here," I said while picking him up and placing him on my shoulder, "I'll carry you."
*SAYUME POV*
I was sitting on Nicholai's shoulder, trying to regain some of my strength. I began to think to myself, "I wonder whatever happened to Cobra." I spoke aloud, "Nicholai? What did you end up doing to Cobra?" "With my last attack, I sent him flying down the mountain, along with part of the mountain. I'll be honest with you; I did have the intent to kill him. I'm truly sorry, but he went too far with me, he pushed me over the edge." I spoke under my breath, "No, Nicholai couldn't have killed him, he couldn't have." I tried to see if I could sense any of Cobra's energy. There he was, still by the mountain. He was obviously close to death, but he was still alive. "Nicholai must've really beaten him within an inch of his life." I thought to myself, "I think I'd rather not tell Nicholai."
Me: Well, that was quite the interesting ending. I never thought that Brain would be that easy to convince to let you go.
Nicholai: Yeah, you didn't even sound to persuading to me.
Sayume: Oh shut up, at least I didn't get my butt kicked by just ONE of their members.
Me: Ooooooh, buuuurrrrrn.
Nicholai: Be quiet before I actually burn you.
Me: But if you do that then no one will be able to find out who that hooded figure from chapter 11 was.
Nicholai: It's not like I don't already know.
Sayume: But I don't!
Me: Well I guess we will just have to wait until the next Chapter to find out.
Sayume: Dang it