I was watching Jacy fight alongside Ryan, Perrin beside me when suddenly a gold orb flew out of nowhere and annihilated the last destroyer. All of us looked around for the source and when I found it my heart froze.
It was him, Ôumí Jiâ.
He was; in a word, massive. A single scale on his body was the size of a fully grown human, and his body was long, serpentine, he had four spindly legs on the upper and lower portions of his body, each with five claws, his bright golden body almost seemed to glow, his wings were equally massive, and unlike most dragons, had black feathers. His horns seemed almost like branches. All in all, he looked like a fusion of the Chinese dragons and the Central American god, Quetzacoatl.
He looked down at all of us, and he had to look a very long ways down, and spoke with a voice that passed through our minds What brings insects such as yourselves to my realm?
We all stared at Ôumí Jiâ, completely speechless. He seemed to laugh without moving his mouth, and then shrunk right before our eyes. Soon he was only slightly larger than two adult dragons. Was it my size that intimidated you so? There, now we may speak.
I shook myself free of the shock and asked the first thing that popped into my head.
"Why did you destroy your own golem?"
To put it quite simply, I didn't want your energy depleted anymore than it was.
"What do you mean?" Kenji asked.
You don't understand? Why does a cat toy with the mouse before ripping it apart? For amusement. Your attempts at fighting back will amuse me.
I could feel a dark energy behind me; Jacy was growing so angry her inner darkness was coming out.
Ôumí Jiâ turned to her. Ah! My servant! How are you since you betrayed me?
"Betray?" Jacy spat. "There was no loyalty to betray! You took my free will, the second I was given the choice I left! And now you'll regret ever giving me power!"
There was a flash of darkness and Jacy had transformed into her wyvern form. Her scales now dark blue, and her front legs gone, her wings growing instead. This time though, she was on fire, a black flame covered her body, the yellow glow of her eyes visible through the haze.
She opened her mouth and there was another black flash and a sound like an explosion in reverse came from Ôumí Jiâ. I watched as an inside-out fireball collapsed onto him. From the power I felt, I could tell it would completely obliterate anything inside the implosion.
However, Ôumí Jiâ simply walked through the flames, like it was a wall of fog.
I see. Ôumí Jiâ said You've learned how to control your abilities without my aide.
Too bad they just aren't enough. Though I'll give you credit, I actually felt something, though it might have been the breeze.
I quickly entered Jacys mind. Jacy, calm down. Your anger is just, but you can't harm him yet, so for now you're only wasting your strength.
Jacy nodded and returned to her bronze form. Perrin looked at me and mouthed a word to me. I understood and took to the air, Ôumí Jiâ followed me with a lazy look. I smiled and teleported directly in front of him, covering my face with my eyes and closing my eyes, yelling the word Perrin had suggested.
"Solar Flare!"
As I released the energy, there was a light unlike anything I'd ever experienced before, I could sense it, but the only one who felt the effects was Ôumí Jiâ. As he screamed in agony, We all converged on him. I charged a light shot and fired it point black, Kenji had released Keyberdu's true form and attacked, Perrin breathed her corrosive breath, Selena fired twin aura beams from her front paws, Jacy summoned her power to crush his head and Ryan instantly grew a glowing forest of bamboo underneath him.
Each of these attacks alone had lethal power, even if the blow glanced you. Yet when we had regrouped, Ôumí Jiâ simply floated from the smoke.
Was that really your best? Oumi Jiâ asked Oh well, I had hoped to keep the game going a bit longer, but I can see now it wouldn't be any fun.
In front of him, light coalesced into a large golden orb that he shot at us. I smiled as I used dragon time. As the orb slowed to a traceable pace Selena, who I had excluded from the effects of dragon time rushed forward and trapped the orb in a current of magic. AS I stopped dragon time, the orb whipped around Selenas body and flew back at Ôumí Jiâ, there was another explosion and Ôumí Jiâ was sent flying by his own blast.
In a flash Kenji was off, flying so fast I couldn't track him with my eyes, suddenly he reappeared behind Ôumí Jiâ, his keyblade glowing with thunder. He swung it, sending Ôumí Jiâ back to the ground. Ryan was already above Ôumí Jiâ, glowing flowers burrowing their roots under his scales, a symbiotic bond. The flowers shot a burst of hundreds of glowing thorns, each one longer than the actual plant.
As he fell towards me, Jacy used her power to accelerate his fall, so he was a blur as he passed me. AS he did though, my tail blade was sheathed in light energy, forming a very long blade that struck him with incredible force. Naturally though, I felt a surge of mind blowing pain as my tail snapped back from hitting an object moving that fast. Perrin flew to my side and began healing the shattered bones.
Through the pain, which was quickly fading, I saw Ôumí Jiâ slowing his fall and eventually stop. As he righted himself and looked up at us he growled and flew back at us with incredible speed. Before he could hit anyone though, Perrin had intercepted, her strength matching his. She dove under him at the last second, grabbing his horns and back flipping, sending him right back down with his own momentum.
This time, Kenji had prepped another spell, but I held him off. "At this range, he would have time to dodge it, wait." Kenji nodded and we flew to close the gap.
Ôumí Jiâ hovered there, waiting. As we approached, he sprung his trap, a huge shockwave left his body, vaporizing the illusions Selena had sent in our stead.
I nodded from above; Ôumí Jiâ was indeed powerful, even his defensive moves were deadly. So we waited for him to return to our level, which he then did.
You insects… He growled. You don't know your place. What chance does a worm have of killing a god? Your attempts are similarly futile.
"Do you think so?" Ryan asked. "Why don't you return to your full size and show us?"
I looked at Ryan like he was crazy, and then back to Ôumí Jiâ as he said You wish this fight to end so soon? Very well, I shall oblige. I waited in grim anticipation for his transformation, but it never came.
After a few seconds, He glared at Ryan. What did you do!
"Simple" Ryan said "I sealed your chakras."
-flashback-
In a flash Kenji was off, flying so fast I couldn't track him with my eyes, suddenly he reappeared behind Ôumí Jiâ, his keyblade glowing with thunder. He swung it, sending Ôumí Jiâ back to the ground. Ryan was already above Ôumí Jiâ, glowing flowers burrowing their roots under his scales, a symbiotic bond. The flowers shot a burst of hundreds of glowing thorns, each one longer than the actual plant.
As the needles rained down, if you were to slow everything, you'd see seven needles strike his body at precise places along the spine and head. The needles of light seemed to melt into his scales and vanish without leaving a wound.
-end of flashback-
"Selena taught me about chakras. I sealed them, and since you can't send energy throughout your body, most of your power useless to you." Ryan finished.
"And that's not all." Kenji said. "I hit you with a spell a while ago, and now I drop it." He snapped his fingers and there was a flash of red from Ôumí Jiâ. At first I thought it was the spell, but then I realized it was blood. Kenji had opened all the wounds we delivered at once.
The effect staggered Ôumí Jiâ. The gashes from Kenji and my strokes, as well as the small, deep wounds from Ryans needles had sprayed blood, then slowed to a steady trickle.
But through all this Ôumí Jiâ laughed.
"What's to laugh about?" I asked. He smiled and turned to me, You cannot kill me.
"Wanna bet?" Jacy asked. "Their powers not the only ones that increased!" and suddenly Ôumí Jiâ seemed to grow, but in a way that he looked bloated, suddenly the force Jacy was exerting on the inside of his body increased and he literally exploded.
I turned to Jacy in disbelief. "Dang… with that power, you could beat just about anyone…" Jacy smiled. "That monster deserved it."
And then we heard him laughing. I told you! Your attempts at my life are laughable! What you killed was a look alike, and its power pales in comparison to my true strength. Now, prepare to face despair in the eye as I smite you, and then go on to obliterate everything!
I felt a feeling unlike anything I'd felt before. It was like the air had grown denser, the power being emitted from the floating castle far above us compressed the air to such an extent that it was nearly impossible to breathe. I knew if I were in my human form, I would die just from being in this area. Fortunely my dragon form has larger lungs.
Then he came from the castle, a shadow, almost intangible. It definitely had the same form as the dragon we just fought, but every color on his body was dark almost to the point of being black. He was also transparent, like a dark ghost, the only thing solid were his golden eyes, which blazed with the fury of untold eons.
"Right." Kenji said. He raised his keyblade and uttered a single word that made me double take, I had never dared to think he could pull off such a spell.
He closed his eyes and whispered "Ultima."
I watched in awe as light seemed to form from nothing and spiral down the blade to the tip, morphing to a bloody color as it did so. It formed a small orb which shrunk to a point, then erupted outward in a massive beam, easily thirty feet wide. The crimson, black, white and yellow beam shot at Ôumí Jiâ, everyone was blown away from Kenji from the sheer force of the blast, which thundered so loud I couldn't make out what it sounded like, it was just pure noise, like when a nuclear bomb explodes, the cameras can't capture the sound, and it only registers as pure bass.
As the beam streaked toward Ôumí Jiâ, he lifted a claw and simply brushed aside the attack, which was deflected into the castle, as the beam hit there was a flash, which then imploded, leaving nothing of the castle, not even floating dust. The shockwave hit us a moment later, blowing us several hundred feet before we could right ourselves.
After we had regrouped, Kenji was steaming. "How? I put every ounce of power I had into that move! He- he brushed it aside like it was nothing!"
Jacy's head was down. "To him, it really is nothing. I remember serving him, when a servant didn't please him, he could kill them by blinking."
"What are we going to do?" Selena asked.
"I don't… I don't know." I said, looking up at Ôumí Jiâ, who hovered there leering at us, knowing there was nothing we could do. And suddenly I knew with grim certainly what must be done.
I looked at all of them. "Guys, I'm sorry, but it's time to go."
"What?" Ryan asked. "This is the reason we're here, and now you want to run?"
"Yeah." Perrin said. "Besides, there's nowhere we can run!"
"I shook my head. "No, it's time for you to go." Then I used my powers and opened a portal behind them. A portal to the distant past, when humans still existed. Then I used a pulse of light to blow Kenji, Ryan, Jacy, Selena and Ryan through the one way portal before they could say a word.
I turned to Perrin. "I love you; say hi to Laura for me."
"What are you planning?" Perrin asked, though in her heart she knew, I could tell from her tears.
"I'm doing what I must. Go. Please." Perrin nodded and slowly walked through the portal, taking one last look over her shoulder, and said "I love you too." before vanishing. As the portal closed, I turned back to Ôumí Jiâ. I closed my eyes and whispered "I promise, we'll see each other again someday."
Then I took off, combining every last nano of light and shadow within my body. This attack would work, it had to.
Ôumí jia laughed at my assault and opened his mouth, a golden beam shot out, but my body struck it head on and cut the beam in half, my chaotic energies deflecting it.
Just before I reached him I unleashed my chaos fury, shoving every ounce of power out my body at once. The resulting surge was to much to control and just as I feared, and expected it recoiled. The chaos energy true to its name was too unstable.
From a spectator's viewpoint, there was a blinding flash of darkness that swallowed first James, then Ôumí Jiâ, then expanded, far in the distance, the white hole was eventually swallowed. The shockwave continued into the infinity of anti-space, leaving nothing in its wake. Everything it destroyed was returned to its home universe as pure matter. Of James and Ôumí Jiâ, there were no remains.
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