Chapter 47 – Is it finally time to get serious?
The dark spiritual pressure of Carmesi concentrated into his sword. His sword melded and vanished into his arm and a dark shadow blade replaced his arm. A black cloak appeared behind him and it tied itself to Carmesi's neck.
"You're a vampire, correct?" asked Ratiasu fanning herself.
"Indeed I am," said Carmesi smiling at her and revealing two long fangs.
"I thought vampires are suppose to suck blood or something else."
"We do, I have evolved and become stronger by sucking away any spiritual energy I find."
"So what's with the sword then? It looks like a silhouette."
"It's just a tool used for absorbing spiritual energy."
"I thought as much, that blade ain't getting anywhere near me though."
"Really? We'll see about that." Carmesi vanished and attacked Ratiasu from behind with a stab. Ratiasu who was faster saw it coming, side stepped folded her fan and countered attacked with a slash. Carmesi vanished again and appeared at where he originally was standing.
"What was all that about?" asked Ratiasu calmly fanning herself again.
"Oh nothing, I just wanted to see if our speed difference was still there and it still is unfortunately for me. You are still definitely faster, I was warned so I came fully aware. Never mind I'm faster so the difference isn't as big as before."
"Whatever, let's just get on with it."
"Don't regret those words," said Carmesi. He ran, then vanished and appeared in front of her with a frontal downward slash.
"Live without regrets, or don't live at all." Ratiasu folded her fan and blocked the attack with her blade. "Do you really think a frontal attack will do anything?"
"I do actually," said Carmesi confidently, the shadow blade suddenly passed through Ratiasu's blade, she jumped back immediately but the shadow blade was able to cut her leg.
"Damn you," cursed Ratiasu as she grabbed her leg in pain. "How can a little cut like this hurt so much?"
"That is no ordinary cut. This is my blades power. Because of it being a mere shadow it can pass through anything and harden when it needs to. And also, it'll absorb an incredible amount of spiritual pressure with just one touch. Do you feel it? Your body is getting weaker, your strength is failing you."
Ratiasu could feel it, her spiritual energy was being drained from that wound she got. "So is that all there is to your resurreccion? That's rather less that what I expected." Ratiasu took a deep breath and readied herself again. She once again charged her blade with lightning and fired it out with a swing of her blade.
The lightning was unexpectedly faster this time and Carmesi had just enough time to say "Reves" before it hit. The lightning too an abrupt U-turn and shot back at Ratiasu. She was ready this time and absorbed the lightning back into her blade, span round and shot off a bigger, faster and much more powerful bolt of lightning.
Carmesi wasn't expecting it and only managed to dodge it by jumping out of the way, but the explosion caught him and he was blown even further. Ratiasu expertly flash stepped behind him, grabbed his shoulder, chucked him down and fired another bolt of lightning after him. The explosion was massive, but out of the smoke shot out Carmesi lunging at Ratiasu. She side stepped out of the way and Carmesi slash sideways. She blocked but just in case the shadow sword passed through hers again, she quickly moved away.
"Impressive combinations, I must commend my lord on having such a talented sister," said Carmesi.
"Save the useless chat for later," said Ratiasu looking deadly serious for the first time in ages.
"As you wish." Carmesi blasted out a cero beam. Ratiasu spread out her fan and sliced the cero in half down the centre, twirled round and fired out some white beams at Carmesi.
He flew at her avoiding the white beams. She fired out one large beam and then switched to the sword form and flash stepped after it.
The beam was intercepted by a black cero type attack from Carmesi and a big cloud of smoke covered the place where both attacks clashed and Carmesi and Ratiasu disappeared behind that smoke. A second later the smoke was wiped clear when a wave of spiritual pressure was sent out when both their weapons clashed again. Ratiasu didn't hold the deadlock for long, she ducked down and span to slash at his feet. Carmesi jumped and slashed downward aimed at Ratiasu's head. She raised her sword horizontally, but instead of blocking it, she parried it and aimed a stab at Carmesi's chest. He side stepped, and turned to slash at Ratiasu's head. She lowered her head and carried on with the movement of the slash. Both quickly then turned and slashed and their blades met once again.
A slight pause, then Ratiasu spread out her fan, the sword disappeared which made Carmesi stumble forward a bit, then she span round and fired a ball of lightning from the fan.
Carmesi saw it, "Reves," he said and a huge explosion occurred as both of them jump out of it with Carmesi mostly damaged. "So I see you've figured it out."
"Indeed I have. You've never used Reves when we were in close combat, and you only used it on my ranged attacks. Which means, you can only use your Reves ability on kido attacks, am I correct? And to use it effectively you can only use it at long range, a close ranged Reves would just blow up the attack and damage you more."
"Impressive, but still, now that you know how my Reves ability works can you beat me?" he asked rhetorically.
"We'll see." Ratiasu made her move, and used the extra speed given to her by her wings to charge straight into close combat again Carmesi.
Another deadlock as their weapons clashed. "So I see, that's why I'm still slower. Both our speed were raised equally, yours by your wings and mine by my resurreccion."
"And how's that going to help you?"
"It probably won't, but I like analysing these kinds of things," he said honestly.
His shadow blade went through Ratiasu's fan and was just about to cut her again when she flash stepped away, and followed it up with, "Wave of destruction, number two, Blaze Hellfire Blast.' A vermillion wire of fire shot at Carmesi, with the speed of a snake moving towards its prey.
"Reves," said Carmesi but nothing happened and Carmesi was forced to evade the attack with his blade. "What's the meaning of this?" he asked, shocked to find that his ability didn't work.
"You said you wanted to see the set of kido attacks me and Ketu made, so here it is."
"Alright that's fine. But if it's kido why can't I use Reves against it?"
"Should you really be asking the enemy questions in the middle of a fight? Well, I'll tell you anyway. We made this kido, so that no one else can use it, weather it'd be against us or wanting to learn it, no one else can use this kido unless they are related to both of us at the same time. It'll only recognize our spiritual energy you see."
"Very intriguing, so I see my Reves is useless against such a strong kido then. Alright. Show me more you've gotten me interested. So bring it on."
"You better not regret those words." Ratiasu's fan glowed with her spiritual energy. "Now that I can use my fan to strengthen my attacks you don't know what you're getting yourself into."
"Oh really?" Carmesi still looked calm. He shot out a dark cero attack at Ratiasu without warning.
"Wave of destruction number one, white thunder," the attacks met and exploded.
"Like you, I have also made my set of cero attacks. And I haven't used the most powerful one yet."
"You don't scare me one bit." She fired another wave of destruction number one, which was again intercepted by a black cero.
"Please don't tell me we're just going to stand here blasting spiritual energy at each other and see which one is stronger. Because I'm sure you know that in brute strength alone, I am stronger."
"I just wanted to see what strength your cero had that's all," said Ratiasu.
"Fair enough then, so can we begin, properly?"
"Let's go, then."
Ratiasu vanished and instantly appeared by Carmesi's side and slashed at him with her blade. Carmesi ducked and attempted to slash her with his blade. Ratiasu sidestepped and blocked the blade just short of her body. She then flash stepped to the other side of Carmesi and spread out her fan attacking with kido. Carmesi span and avoided the hit, he then used the spin's strength and slashed at her. She blocked, but his power was stronger so she was knocked back a few metres. She didn't wait even a second and flash stepped back into close combat and made a few quick slashes which were all expertly blocked. She did a head slash, Carmesi ducked and pushed her away with his hand.
She back flipped and landed on her feet, "Wave of destruction number three, eternity of light." She thrusted her finger downwards and sent a huge shockwave of a white light into the ground. Carmesi shielded himself with his arms. Ratiasu took the chance and lunged with her blade. Carmesi recovered in time and fired another black cero. Ratiasu twirled as she advanced and fired a bolt of lightning. The lightning was fired back with Reves, she absorbed it into her fan which was now spread out and blasted it back combined with Wave of Destruction number one. Carmesi was blasted off his feet. Ratiasu flash stepped in front of him and slashed, Carmesi blocked but was shoved into the floor by the force of her attack.
He flipped up in mid-air and landed on his feet. "Shiro Cero." A white beam of cero hit Ratiasu who tried to block with her fan but was overwhelmed. She dropped out of the sky and stuck her blade into the ground for support to stand up.
Carmesi moved swiftly and was upon Ratiasu in less than a second and stabbed her straight through the chest just missing her heart. She grabbed the black blade and held on tightly even though her energy was being drained at a rapid rate.
"What are you going to do now?" asked Carmesi smirking.
Wave of Destruction number three, eternity of light," she mumbled under her breath and looked up. Blood was trickling out of her mouth and her face was becoming pale. Another wave of white energy was bashing into Carmesi. He retrieved his sword quickly as blood splattered to the floor and continued to flow out of Ratiasu's chest.
Carmesi was relatively uninjured as he landed comfortably on his feet. "Guess this is the end for you." He said as he prepared to fire another cero.
"Shut it, I'm not done yet. I won't go down that easily," panted Ratiasu as she clutched her chest.
"Give it up." He raised his hand, "Shiro, Ce-" Suddenly a bloodied sword came out of Carmesi's stomach and he dropped to his knees. Zeo stood behind him holding the blade with a tired but satisfied look on his face.
"Useless am I? You're regretting saying that to me now aren't you?" taunted Zeo.
"You," breathed Carmesi. He got up slowly.
"Yes me, now I have the pleasure of killing you. How do you feel?"
"Hmph, I feel good. Because now I finally can rid the world of you." Carmesi vanished and appeared next to Zeo and kicked him into the air. Zeo turned around in mid-air and fired a cero. Carmesi used Reves and blown Zeo out of the sky.
"You're dead," said Carmesi approaching him.
"I don't think so," smirked Zeo pointing at something behind him. Carmesi turned around and saw Ratiasu making movements with her fan.
"I don't think so either," shouted Carmesi and moved towards Ratiasu.
"Feng. Di. Liang. Hei. Hou. Shui. Dian. Bin. Shi jei de li liang. Di Qiu de hei. Liang shi feng kai de. Ba ta men fang zai yi qi." She sliced the air diagonally with her fan and disappeared behind Carmesi with her wings as spread out as they can get, at point blank range. "Wave of Destruction number four, dragon's radiance." There was one flash and her fan radiated out a massive amount of light, that engulfed everything around them including Zeo.
"ARGHHH," screamed Carmesi as he was disintegrated in the light.
The light faded and Ratiasu stood there and suddenly dropped to her knees panting and facing the ground. A sudden light was emitted from her fan as it rose above her and showered Ratiasu with flakes of light. She slowly regained her breath and her wound closed. The fan reverted back into her original sword and fell to the ground. She picked it up. "Thanks, for toughing it until the end." She walked cautiously to Zeo. "Who are you?" she asked.
"I really don't think this is a good time or place for introductions. But I'm Zeo Oseomartir, 5th of the Wujian. Pleasure to meet you," he said unable to stand up as blood constantly dripped from his mouth.
"Why did you help me then if you're one of them?"
"I don't have much time left, so I'll just say one thing." He smiled, "I fell in love, with one of your kind." He coughed and blood splattered onto the grass around him. "And I never liked Usaitar." At these last words he fell forwards and fainted.
"I guess it's true what they say, love knows no bounds." Ratiasu bent down and healed Zeo enough so that he won't die anytime soon. The world around them started to twist and turn and the skies melded with the ground, and in a short flash of light Ratiasu was back where she was before the fight started.