Door of twilight
Chapter 26
Dancing Drive Forms, part 4
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As Sanosuke picked himself up off the ground, Cloud and Rinoa went on the attack, Buster Sword and Keyblade in hand, respectively. As Cloud spun around, bringing his huge sword around in a wide arc, Rinoa jumped over Cloud's sword, bringing her Keyblade down in an overhead slash. What happened next shocked everyone; Jadis brought her sword up and stopped Cloud's Buster Sword mid swing, while bringing her ice staff up and launching a high power dark blizzard spell point black at Rinoa, sending her flying backwards, covered in ice. Then with what looked like a simple push with her sword, Jadis sent Cloud flying back as well, throwing both the blond and his sword back with no trouble what so ever.
Seeing both Rinoa and Cloud go flying back, that seemed to signal everyone else that they should attack. Irvine quickly brought his rifle up, firing a rapid flurry of shots at the dark user. At the same time, Lulu brought up her Moogle doll and began casting as many thunder spells as she could. However, Jadis didn't move an inch as the attacks came towards her; seconds before they hit, and barrier of darkness surrounded Jadis, blocking all the attacks launched at her. Then, raising her ice staff again, two pillars of ice burst from the ground, trapping both Irvine and Lulu in them.
Quistis was the next one to attack, lashing out with her whip in several quick attacks. However, it was no use, as Jadis simply brought her sword around on a flurry of motion, blocking every attack Quistis made. As Jadis lashed out with another dark blizzard spell, Quistis quickly dove to the side, barley avoid the magic attack. However, Quistis was unable to avoid the follow up attack, which ended up freezing her in a chuck of ice like Lulu and Irvine.
Next up were Zell and Kon, with Zell moving in for a head on attack as well as serving as a distraction, and Kon using his speed to try and get behind Jadis and land a solid attack that way. As Zell lashed out with a rapid punch combo, Kon got behind Jadis and lashed out with the strongest kick he could manage. As Jadis made a rapid movement to block the attacks from Zell with the flat side of her sword, she thrust he staff backwards, causing a wall of ice to form in front of Kon's attack, stopping it cold.
Jadis then went on the attack, thrusting her sword forwards at a high rate of speed, aiming for Zell's chest. While Zell was able to sidestep so it didn't hit his chest, the blade did plunge into his right shoulder. As the blade went through Zell's shoulder, Jadis quickly spun around, pulling Zell by the sword in his shoulder, and threw him to the ground. However, before he had the chance to scream out in pain, Jadis quickly hit him with one of her dark blizzard spells, freezing him to the spot.
Kon then attacked again, jumping into the air and sending a lightning fast spinning kick at Jadis's head. However, Jadis once again simply brought her sword up to block with the flat side of her blade, before countering by thrusting he staff out at Kon's chest. Kon quickly dropped to one knee, before launching a spinning kick at Jadis's legs. However, that too was stopped when she plunged her sword into the ground, stopping the attack dead. Jadis the cast another blizzard spell, hitting Kon dead on, freezing him like the rest.
Seeing just about everyone else be taken down so quick, Cloud leapt at Jadis from behind, trying to finish her off with one blow from his Buster Sword. However, that plan didn't work, as Jadis quickly turned around, pulling her sword out of the ground and using it to parry Cloud's attack. As Jadis thrust her staff around in another thrust, Cloud quickly dove to the side, rolling on the ground to avoid the attack. As Cloud rolled to his feet, he quickly lashed out with another wide swinging arc, which was quickly block, and he thrown back as Jadis demonstrated her seemingly super human strength. Jadis then fired a blizzard spell at Cloud before he had a chance to recover, trapping him in the ice as well.
Sanosuke was staring at the scene in front of him in shock. All these people had been defeated so easily, and the woman that had done it all was acting like nothing had happened what so ever. "This is crazy! Whoever this chick is, she as strong as Kenshin or Saito, maybe even stronger. To make matters worse, I still can't use the Futae no Kiwami because my right hand still isn't fully healed yet, and the Karyu style is useless since I have to be close enough I can punch her to use it. I guess that just leaves 'borrowing' a sword." Sanosuke though as he looked over his options.
(I'm just going to type this now so I don't forget; the Futae no Kiwami style is an attack Sanosuke uses were he punches someone/something with just his knuckles, then following up by striking with a normal punch with in 1/75th of a second, which cause most solid objects to more or less turn to dust, or kill someone if hit in the right spot. And the Karyu is an attack style were someone strikes so fast that, even if they miss with their punch/kick, the speed of the attack causes a vacuum, which then can cut someone using the pressure of the air being drawn into the vacuum, most of the time being nothing more then a scratch on the side of the person's body.)
"Hey ugly, I need to borrow this!' Sanosuke yelled, as he was somehow able to gab one of the sword a Cyclops had been holding. As he stumbled around, trying to find a way to hold the sword enough to be able to fight with it, Jadis gave a long sigh. "You are only making it harder on yourself, just give up now and find a quick death from the heartless. If you continue to fight this pathetic excuse of a battle, you'll just receive a much more painful death, like that of you're little friends here." Jadis said as she motioned to the frozen bodies of the other seven.
"To tell the truth, I just meat these people a few minutes ago, but from what I've seen, there not that different from the friends I have back home. But you know what, I don't care that I don't known them, anyone that has a freaking huge army attack a town like this, no matter how weird all the people of this town dress or act, can't be up to any good." Sanosuke said as he finally found a way to hold the sword without to much trouble. "So enough talk about how I'll only end up getting a more painful death, and lets just fight already."
Sanosuke then charged forwards at a rather high rate of speed considering he was carrying a 200-pound sword. However, instead of attacking head on, Sanosuke jumped into the air, around ten feet. "Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu style, or something pretty damn close: Ryutsuisen!" Sanosuke yelled, as he suddenly dropped from the air at a high rate of speed, bringing his "barrowed" sword down at Jadis's head. Jadis raised both her sword and staff up to try and block the attack, as the huge sword came down on her fast.
As the Cyclops style sword connected with Jadis's sword and staff, enough force came down on Jadis to make a small crater where she was standing, forcing the ground she was standing on about a foot lower. However, Jadis was able to hold out, keeping the sword from striking her. As Sanosuke landed on the ground in front of Jadis, she was able to throw the huge sword back, along with Sanosuke, who went sliding back around three yards.
"Not bad, for an insect." Jadis said, looking at the amount of damage Sanosuke's attack had done to the ground around her, and started wondering what would have happened if the sword had hit her. As Sanosuke lifted the over sized sword over his head, the tip of it facing Jadis, he gave a smirk. "You should really be careful about who you call weak, or that person might come back to beat you into the ground." Sanosuke said as he started looking for another way to attack again.
However, Jadis beat him to it. Rushing forwards at a speed that shouldn't have been possible considering she was in a dress, Jadis moved right in front of Sanosuke, swinging her sword at his chest. All Sanosuke was able to do was bring the hilt of the sword down to barley block Jadis's brutal attack. However, as she thrust her staff towards him, Sanosuke was forced to drop the giant sword and jump back to avoid being skewered. Not giving Sanosuke enough time to form a counterattack, Jadis quickly lashed out with several blizzard spells, which forced Sanosuke to weave in and out of the attacks to avoid getting frozen.
"What the hell, the Futae no Kiwami is all I have left at this point, I'll just have to be careful not to use my right hand in a fight for the next couple weeks." Sanosuke thought as he ran forwards at Jadis, right first drawn back and ready to strike. When he thrust out with a punch using his knuckles, Jadis, like all the times before, brought her sword up and blocked with the flat side of the blade. However, Sanosuke instantly struck again with a normal fist, hitting the sword in the exact same spot as the first punch. Sanosuke then winced as he felt the bone in his right hand, which had fractured in several places in a fight a few months ago, facture in a couple places again.
At first it looked like nothing had happened to Jadis's sword, but then a loud crack could be heard. Then, several long cracks began to spread out along her sword, starting where Sanosuke's fist had landed. However, the cracks stopped before they could manage to break the sword completely, but it was still clearly damaged. Jadis was clearly in shock, this being the first time anyone had been able to come close to destroying her weapon. However, that only lasted a moment, as she soon lashed out with another blizzard spell, freezing Sanosuke where he stood.
Slowly, Jadis began to give a small laugh, having not only beaten everyone in Travers Town, but also actually had a somewhat decent fight at the same time. However, she didn't notice that a bright red/orange light had begun to come from the block of ice Cloud was frozen in. However, she did turn around once she heard the ice shatter, a couple shards hitting her in the back. When she turned around, she could see that Cloud was standing there, jagged black tattoos covering his entire exposed body.
"What is this?" Jadis asked as Cloud picked up his Buster Sword and turned around. Cloud then seemed to vanish, only to rapier right in front of Jadis, already in mid swing with his sword. Jadis quickly brought up her own sword to block, but since her sword was already damaged, it was easily destroyed by Cloud's much larger sword. However, Jadis was able to move just enough so she wasn't hit by the sword.
As she stabbed at Cloud's chest with her staff, Cloud quickly reached up and grabbed her hand with his left hand, stopping it dead. Jadis quickly noticed that Cloud's strength had increased about five times, along with his speed. Cloud then pushed back, jumping backwards about twenty feet. Cloud then planted the Buster Sword into the ground, as his hands became a blur as they made several hand signals. Cloud then took a deep breath, and when he released it, a large stream of fire poured out, which then took the shape of a giant ball.
Jadis, using her super human speed, quickly moved to the side, letting the fireball hit the heartless behind her. As she launched another flurry of blizzard spells at Cloud, he quickly preformed the hand signals again, and launched another fireball to meet the blizzard spells half way. However, Jadis's blizzard spells were still stronger, but by the time they hit Cloud they had been weakened to the point that they didn't freeze Cloud's whole body, just the part they hit.
"Did you really think that you could beat me just by using a little power up?" Jadis said as she looked at Cloud as he lay on the ground in pain. "Not really, but you know what? Those fire balls weren't aimed at you." Cloud said with a slight smirk. Turning quickly, Jadis say that the first fireball had freed Sanosuke, Irvine, and Lulu, and the other had freed Rinoa, Quistis, Zell, and Kon. All seven people had disappeared from Jadis's view; however, she was able to hear where they went.
The hanger doors on the SEED building the burst open, as the Gummi ship that Rinoa's group had been using flew out, guns blasting several heartless ships that had been floating over the city. Cloud then pushed himself up off the ground and made a break for it. Once close enough, Cloud leapt into the air, and into a door where Kon and Sanosuke were waiting to pull him in. That signaled whoever was driving, most likely Rinoa or Quistis, to punch it for a quick get away.
Jadis stared in disbelief; they had gotten away from her.
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I know it's short, but it was all I could do without getting into the next chapter: some romance development and some non-battle scenes. As well as more of Kairi's matchmaking plans. On a side note: Whoo! Updates two days in a row!