Chapter 38: The Twelve VS The Master Part 3
As the remaining nine fighters dashed towards The Master a shadowy barrier appeared around him.
Captain Falcon was the first to attack The Master punching him in the face with a full power Falcon Punch. Next was Pikachu who performed an Iron Tail against The Master. Ness followed up by smashing his Heart Bat against The Master's face. While Mario and Luigi sent fireballs at him. DK used his pure brute strength to smash The Master down on the ground while Yoshi head butted him.
Fox fired his blaster at a rapid pace stunning The Master with each hit. Jigglypuff stood on top of The Master while he was down and inexplicably sent him flying into the wall of the room. Everyone stopped for a moment and waited for the Master to get up off of the ground. There they saw his battered appearance. Blood all over his face, several cuts and burn marks.
"It actually hurts!" He laughed. "Now who will be my next prey?" he looked at each of the remaining fighters, his gaze was set upon Ness. "I think it would be better if we didn't hold back…" he raised up his hand and muttered "Disable," Ness went flying backwards when suddenly a large amount of energy came from him. "Giygas, I've temporarily disabled your seal to see if I am truly the weakling you said I am."
The room became covered in ice. A barrier made of ice separated Ness and The Master from the other eight warriors. "Three minutes is all I need," Giygas' voice boomed out. Ness' body punched the air and compressed air hit The Master sending him flying back into the ice barrier. Ness opened his hands and spikes erupted from the ice wall impaling The Master.
Ness punched the air one more time and the ice barrier shattered sending thousands of ice shards into The Master. His body was now bleeding all over. "Your not like me," he laughed getting up off of the ground. "I'm a warrior trained to fight until death. You, you on the other hand are a bunch of mismatch characters who appeared out of nowhere to help one person in his obsessive quest to kill me,"
"Thirty seconds," Giygas muttered.
"What?"
"That's how much time has elapsed." Giygas replied. "You were the idiot who disabled my seal, even if it's temporary."
Ness ran forwards and swung his arms like a beast. The Master was able to jump back to avoid the attack but 3 giant gashes appeared on his chest. The Master attacked Ness with a hyper beam however the aura blocked the attack.
The two stood back-to-back The Master then collapsed with blood exploding from his side. But to everyone's horror The Master got up again. "I'll fight to the death, its not my body anyways, only his, his body, my spirit!"
Ness attacked again this time puncturing The Master's right lung. "Giygas…" Mario said shocked. "What a monster."
"I didn't want it to come down to this!" The Master gasped as an aura rose off of his body. The aura stretched to the corners of the room and everything became black. Giygas' aura was radiating off of Ness and it rushed forwards at The Master. The Master however blocked Giygas. "Do you still think I'm weak?" he asked.
"This feeling," Fox said afraid. "Every single hair on my body is standing on end. Its almost as though if we move even the slightest bit we will be killed." Everything suddenly became pitch black and silent. They had become blind and deaf.
"Welcome to death," The Master said even though he knew they couldn't hear him. "Now watch as fear and doubt take over your body. Not knowing when you will be attacked or when you will die. Your only sense that you have to rely on is touch."
A light arrow shot through the darkness and pierced The Master's abdomen. "You don't know when to stay out of the battle Link."
"That's true," Link responded. The Master stood paralyzed in shock that Link heard what he said let alone knew where he was. "I may be on the verge of death but I still have some power." Link pointed around him there was light. "I created a barrier so I was protected from your attack"
"You'll regret that then." The Master smiled. "You will see me slaughter each of your friends while the only thing you can do is lay there helplessly." He faced Ness and ran up slashing him with the N-Sword. Ness however just disappeared. "It would appear that I'm now stuck in a trap. My own attack used against me."
The darkness disappeared and behind The Master was Ness ready to continue the assault. Giygas' aura wrapped itself around The Master. The Master however disappeared and reappeared with the N-Sword stabbing Ness. Ness just smiled as a response and placed his hand on the Master's arm. With out any warning the area where Ness's hand was blew up causing The Master to scream out in pain.
"Give up," Giygas said through Ness. "I can make your death painless."
"But the N-Sword… It pierced your heart!" The Master said confused.
"My aura caused the N-Sword to bend around Ness. Now let me warn you, the next area I'm aiming for will be your heart!" Ness ran towards The Master when a stone sphere surrounded The Master. "Trying to run again?" with one touch the stone sphere exploded.
The Master was on the ground bleeding worse than he was previously, Ness just reached for The Master's chest area.
With three minutes elapsing Ness collapsed the intense aura of Giygas faded. The Master breathed a sigh of relief knowing that death was evaded. He took a while to stand up as he was obviously shaken once his breathing returned to normal he stared at each of the eight remaining fighters.
The Master then disappeared and then reappeared in front of one of the remaining fighters, his hand reaching out and then he disappeared and moved on to the next one repeating the process until he had gone to each of the eight remaining fighters. His eyes lit up and he stared at each of them "Destiny Bond" He shouted out. With that several strings made of aura appeared connecting each of the fighters. He picked up the N-Sword and stabbed himself through the stomach. Each of the 8 remaining fighters screamed out in pain. The Master then removed the sword from his stomach and discarded it on the ground. "We all share the same pain now," he laughed raising up his left hand and piercing his chest. With that he pulled out his heart.
"Its suicide!" Mario shouted.
"No…" The Master responded. "After I crush my heart I will disable the destiny bond and quickly regenerate my body parts."
With that the Master crushed his heart and collapsed onto the ground. Everyone stared in shock as they weren't following the same fate or experiencing any pain. "Took him long enough," Jigglypuff sighed with her fist glowing. "He isn't the only one who can use disable!"
"Why didn't you do that sooner?" Pikachu shouted frustrated at the fellow Pokemon.
"Well I had to do it so that he would kill himself."
"You could of told us!" Pikachu continued to shout.
"But then he wouldn't have killed himself."
"I'm not dead!" The Master laughed getting up off of the ground. "I told you that I was going to regenerate my heart and arm." All of the wounds on his body had disappeared. He rose up his right hand so that it faced Jigglypuff. "Now die!" A hyper beam flied from his hands and went towards Jigglypuff. Pikachu however jumped in the way of the attack and stopped it with his electricity. Seeing this The Master over powered Pikachu and sent him flying into Jigglypuff knocking them both out unconscious.
"And then there were 6."
Mario and Luigi jumped forwards however The Master just stepped aside making them crash into each other they were then knocked out with The Master's sword.
Captain Falcon, DK, Yoshi, and Fox stood ready for the next attack. "Has he slowed down?" Fox asked. Everyone else just nodded their heads. "It seems like he has reached his limit. Go DK."
DK pounded his fists against his chest before running forwards and punching The Master in the face. Every punch DK threw The Master couldn't dodge. "Nice," The Master muttered after getting punched fifty times in a row. "Now try this, Counter!" The Master threw one punch and hit DK sending him flying into the wall. Such force caused the wall to crumble.
Captain Falcon, Yoshi, and Fox ran towards The Master. Both Fox and Captain Falcon were running around The Master while Yoshi threw an unlimited amount of eggs at him. "Recover," The Master muttered. A golden aura surrounded him and he began to get back his strength.
With one final attack they were downed. The Master began to walk away. "To believe you gave me that much trouble," he said slightly agitated. "But now you understand why I am the strongest being in the universe!"
"No," a new voice replied.
To be continued…