Chapter 43

"Goddamnit!! We're going to be late!!" Pyro shouted, before speeding up.

"Hey!! Wait a sec!!" Flora exclaimed as she and the others also sped up.

They landed at Chronopolis and quickly headed inside.

"Sorry we're late," Douse panted, out of breath.

The final Dragon turned to them and scoffed, before turning back at the large discus shaped video-screen.

"The true battle has not begun yet. You are all a little early actually," he said.

"All this hurrying for nothing," Terra mumbled with a glare at Pyro, who growled and pulled the brim of her hat down.

"How are they doing?" Mura asked, walking over.

"Fairly well," the eighth Dragon said.

"Which party? The Arbiter's, or ours?" Douse asked.

"Ch. That of the Arbiter, which else?"

Bulma easily ducked under the Einlanzer, and headbutted the Dragon in her guts. Same doubled over, but growled and punched the girl away. Bulma landed on her feet easily, and blocked the next swing from the Einlanzer. The Dragon growled and lashed out again, but Bulma avoided, then lashed out across the Same's face, lashing open the scar she had. Same hissed in pain, then turned to Bulma in anger.

Before Same could hit her, Vegeta blocked the Einlanzer and kicked her away. Same grunted in pain, but didn't scream. She blocked a blow to her head from Vegeta, then swung at him with her blade, but he dodged. Same suddenly grabbed Vegeta's hand and slammed him into the ground, rather hard. Vegeta jumped out to avoid the kick aimed for his abdomen. He hurled his axe at Same, but she jumped aside.

The second Same's feet touched the ground, she was elbowed to her spine by a certain cavegirl. Same growled angrily and spun around, before landing softly on her feet. Same easily blocked the cavegirl's katana, but Kari wasn't one to give up. Kari swung her blade sideways, making Same block. Kari smirked, and suddenly punched the Dragon to her jaw, sending her flying. The cavegirl easily followed her and managed to knee her to her spine, and then knock the Dragon into the ground. Same rolled out of the way, before Kari could stomp her foot down on the Dragon.

Same jumped aside just in time to avoid a punch from Grobyc, aimed at her face. The next punch was easily caught by Same, and with a quick move, the cyborg experienced something that humans would call, 'one Hell of a pain'. Same kicked and punched him so fast that he couldn't even detect her movement. Grobyc was on the ground before he could blink.

The Dragon released a startled cry when she felt her skin rip. The person behind the attack was Elvor, whom was holding the Murasame in his hands. He smirked, and easily avoided a blow from the Einlanzer, before blocking the next swing.

Nah-na na-na-nah!! two teasing voices called out from the black blade as Elvor dodged another blow.

Elvor made a stabbing move, but Same easily rolled out of the way, before blocking yet another swing from the Murasame. Elvor didn't count on being swatted aside.

When Elvor looked up, he noticed that Same swung out her blade, but he avoided, and shot up. Before he even realized what he did, he ran forward, Murasame in his right hand. Black swirls surrounded the blade, and before he could even blink, he felt the knuckles of his right hand buried in warm, sticky flesh, slowly being draped in dark black blood.

Oh…

Yuck!

Sky jumped away to avoid the barrage of cards the young harlequin threw at him, before hitting her to her face. Ancha simply shook her head, and glared. She reached inside her pouch, and grabbed out two daggers of the same size. Just as Sky lashed out, Ancha jumped up and blocked the next swing with one of her daggers. She began to lash out with both daggers, but Sky easily blocked them both.

At a sudden point, he kicked Ancha away, whirled around, and grabbed the arrow Asoret had shot at him between his fingers. Asoret didn't even bother with it, just shot another one. Sky dodged it easily, then shot himself into the sky. Asoret wasn't impressed though. He suddenly faded out, and reappeared behind Sky. Before Sky had the time to react, Asoret had kicked him down to the ground. Asoret faded out again and reappeared on the ground.

Sky just managed to roll out of the way to avoid Goku's blade. Goku growled and lashed out again, but Sky blocked. The Masamune lashed out, and Goku couldn't avoid the two slashes aimed at his face, forming a cross with the wounds. Goku jumped aside and placed his hand on his left-cheek, and felt the blood run through his hand. He looked up, and could just avoid the next swing from the Masamune.

Before Sky even had the chance to lash out again, someone knocked him aside. Hope landed on her feet and grabbed both her blades from their sheaths. Sky glared at the girl, before swinging the Masamune at her. Hope crossed both blades, blocking the blood red sword with relative ease. The two combatants glared at each other, before jumping away. They then shot at each other again, weapons clashing loudly as they connected.

From a short distance, a certain golden haired girl watched the fight, and studied the blade that Sky was holding.

'I coul've been mistakin', but did I jus' hear them lil' rascals or not?' she wondered. ''Cause tha thing can't be wha I think it is, righ'?'

From the distance she was at, she tried to study the hilt of the blade, squinting as she couldn't seem to be able to read it, until she stumbled across the ancient runes.

'M…E…L…C…H…I…O…R… Bloody Hell!!!'

When Hope was about to have her head slashed off, Laze finally moved. She shot forward, grabbed her katana from the sheath on her back and blocked the bloodstained blade. She then whirled the blade to the ground and kicked the Sky Dragon to his chin while flipping over. Sky growled and lashed out again, but Laze blocked again. While she fought the Dragon, she easily heard the conversation going on inside the blade.

Hey Masa! Is that…!

What? Let me see! AAAH!! It is!!

Now what?! We can't just kill her!!

We won't! We just have to make sure that Sky won't kill her!

'Hey ye two!! Jus' shuddap!! Ye're making me lose me focus!'

?!?!

Suddenly, the two combatants sensed a shift in the air, and Laze felt the winds change along with it. It kept shifting from hot to cold, and vice-versa, and it hurt, like hell! She knew what it meant though, and she jumped aside. Sky hurriedly whirled around. Laze turned to look, and gasped softly.

Elvor stepped back, making the Black Dragon wince lightly, face contorted in pain. She didn't even bother to grasp the wound as she fell down onto her knees, before falling over, eyes closing. Elvor was looking down at her with a shocked expression on his face, as if he only just realized what he had done. The Murasame was covered in a thin layer of dark red blood, trickling down in thick droplets.

Silence reigned over them all for what seemed like an eternity.

That is, until Sky's voice called out: "LIFE2!!!!"

A ray of light descended from the sky and touched the wounded Dragon's body. A set of small angels followed the ray, and poured down strange golden sparks over the Dragon.

Elvor had taken a few cautious steps back, unsure of what was going on. When the light dimmed, the Black Dragon arose. She heavily shook her head, then grasped it with one hand.

"Fuck…" she cursed softly.

Bulma looked confused.

"Does… this mean… we won??" she asked.

Same laughed softly.

"Yeah righ'! As if!!" she exclaimed coldly.

"I agree, this battle isn't over yet!!!" Sky shouted. "Ready Same?!"

"Oooh yeah!!!"

The duo instantly shot up into the air, and everyone stared up in confusion. Laze blinked, standing up beside Elvor. "Wha the Bloody Hell are they doin'?" she asked. Elvor shrugged. That's when she felt it. The power kept on increasing as the two Dragons began to silently chant words they had never heard off. Laze knew them though, and knew this couldn't be good.

'Oooooooooh SHIT!!!!'

"It's done," Sky whispered, opening his eyes.

Same opened hers and said: "Then let's do it."

"DAAAAAAARK-LUUUUUUUMIIIIIIINAAAAAAAIIIIIIIREEEEEE!!!!!!"

A bright sphere of burning light suddenly appeared in the air above the entire group and quickly filled the sky, the orb engulfing the group and blasting them upward into the center of the sphere, waves of scorching radiance crashing against the nine ensnared people. The air within the glowing sphere suddenly grew darker and liquid shadows drowned the struggling people, a storm of living darkness trying to rip at their limbs within the still-bright sphere. The shell of light began to collapse and it sank into the darkness, making them all fall down to the ground, not at all doing too well.

The Dragons were both panting for breath as they landed quietly, looking around for anyone still standing.

Bulma felt like her body weighed more than a ton, and her body burned. She didn't dare to move.

Ancha shook her head, trying to clear the cobwebs, but even shaking her head hurt. That was all she did.

Kari groaned and tried to move her arm, not really caring that it hurt. No such luck, because her arm couldn't hold her bodyweight, so she fell down again.

Vegeta tried to raise his head, but even that gave him more pain than he could afford. It hurt, terribly, so he stopped moving altogether.

Asoret was lying on his stomach, and trying carefully to get up, but to no avail. It just hurt too much.

Goku got up on shaky arms, but fell back on the ground when his arms couldn't support his weight.

Grobyc's circuitry was lightly fried, and his vision was blurring constantly, so he closed his eyes, and waited.

Hope was already leaning on one arm, but she wasn't able to get up because of the pain, so she laid back down instead.

Elvor tried to use his katana to get back up, but the Murasame slipped, making him fall onto the ground rather hard.

Sorry new master, a young girl's voice suddenly seemed to whisper in his ear.

There's nothing we can do to help, a boy's voice finished.

Same looked around, then asked: "Funny, I thought there were ten o' them."

Sky looked around too, and blinked.

"You're right. We're missing someone," he said.

Same was about to ask something, when a loud voice cut her off.

"TEMPESTA DUO!!!!" the golden haired girl screamed, as electric sparks surrounded her, then shot out, hitting both Dragons before they had the chance to react.

The electric waves hit their destined targets multiple times, and it sent them both back. When the wave stopped, the Dragons looked up to see Laze smirking wickedly as she lowered her left fist.

"Think ye're the only ones knowin' Magic? GUESS AGAIN!!! NEBULA ATRA!!!" she hollered, aiming both hands at the Dragons.

A strange black mist surged across them, covering everyone in a blanket of black. The mist finally began to come into effect, burning at the Dragons' skin, but leaving Laze's friends alone. The Dragons cried out in pain and surprise, before they both dropped to the ground, unconscious.

Laze looked around, and noticed that her friends were seriously injured. She sighed, shaking her head.

"RESTORE!!!" she shouted, and white bolls of healing Mana burst forth from her hands, healing all off her friends, including Grobyc.

It didn't take long for everyone to get back to their feet.

"Ye guys alrigh'?" she asked.

Vegeta rubbed his head and mumbled: "Not really."

Laze chuckled.

"Won't blame ya. Most people neva even survived a Dark-Luminaire spell. Most had already died before they hit the ground," she explained.

"And how come you know that?" Elvor asked, sheathing his blade.

"'Cause I---uh-oh. Trouble."

Everyone turned around, and gulped nervously.

Same and Sky were back up again.

'Them kids're pretty tough, don't ya think?'

'Yeah, but they won't survive the next round.'

'Ooooh yeah! This's gonna be fun!!'

'Indeed. LET'S DO IT!!!'

The two Dragons suddenly released a scream, and a large shockwave sent everybody to the ground. Sky grabbed Same's left hand with his right and intertwined the fingers with hers. They then moved arms-length apart, legs spread. Their other arms were also spread, with the hands in an angle of 90 degrees.

"FUUUUUUUUU!!!!" they chimed as they moved back to back, heads facing forward.

They were going through one knee, and their hands touched.

"SION!!!!" they chimed again as they stretched their previous bent leg, and punched their fists into the air, held their other leg with the knee up, and placed their intertwined hands near their hips.

"HAAAAAAA!!!" they screamed as they bent over to form a half-circle, their index-fingers touching.

The second they did that, a bright light surrounded the two Dragons. Everyone cried out as the light invaded their eyes, and shielded them. When they were able to look again, they gasped in shock.

Z-Vor tossed his now gray hair aside, dressed in his usual outfit, only now everything was a different shade of gray. This time, he had wings, horns, and claws, and everything seemed to be a combination of Sky and Same. However, this time, he carried two sheaths.

One of them held the Einlanzer, and the other held the Masamune.

Okay, Z-Vor's got a name for himself now.

Reviews:

Disser: I won't try to change your opinion. Besides, a few more chapters and the story's finished. I don't really bother with flames anyway.

The Mad Orange: Maybe, maybe not.

Bulma BriefsYue Lover: AAAAH!!! Now I KNOW I'm not going to like it!! Because if there's one kind of series I DON'T like, it's soap operas!!

samicat: Hehe, it's almost finished! Just a few more chapters and it's over!!

Ciria: Hey! Who's been lying on that pedestal in all chapters from chapter 33 to 40?! Ciria will show up a little more in the explanations that will come later on, you'll see. When Same met her? Uh… when she was 12, so… five years before her death. I won't be able to answer all questions, sorry.

Dragon battle schedule:

1. Earth Dragon Isle - Terra, the Earth Dragon

2. Water Dragon Isle - Douse, the Water Dragon

3. Mt. Pyre - Pyro, the Fire Dragon

4. Gaea's Navel - Flora, the Green Dragon

5. Marbule - Mura, Eldest Black Dragon

6. Marbule - Same, Youngest Black Dragon

7. Sky Dragon Isle - Sky, the Sky Dragon

8. Sea Of Eden - Chronopolis - Z-Vor, the Fusion Dragon

I already told this, but if people desire for me to write a side-story about all couples [lemon style] please tell and I'll see what I can do. I'm not that good at lemons, but that's my own opinion. Also, if you know another couple you'd like to read a lemon about from this story, do tell. [Dragons are allowed as well.]