Chapter 19
Song of the day once again if one was needed: Re-align - Godsmack because it's a kick-ass song.
"I know what you're here for." Chaos said, holding up a small metallic cube, Chaos put the metal piece into a small bag which hung from his side beside his sheathed sword.
"Now I can finally kill you for what you've done." Cross said, still baring his fangs.
"Then here's your chance, catch me if you can." The tall vulpine said, dashing off further into the cave with incredible speed, Cross looked to the dark blue vulpine beside him.
"Be careful my brother." Ecks said, his gaze steady on Rage and the bright blue furred vixen in front of him.
"You know me." Cross chuckled as the iris in his eyes suddenly changed to a dark red, not even a second later, Cross sped off in the same direction as Chaos.
"Now then, let's get to it." Ecks said, but without warning, he suddenly felt pressure on his neck as he was lifted into the air by Rage.
"You caught me by surprise the last time, but this time you die." Rage said with an evil grin as he held the blue vulpine by the throat, squeezing the life from him.
Ecks closed his eyes, "If you're going to kill someone," He said weakly, "Then do it!" His eyes shot open, the iris in both eyes had become a dark blue color as Rage's body shot back as if he were hit by a cannon, making his grip on Ecks' throat release, Ecks then set his sights on the bright blue furred vixen, her sky-blue eyes seemed somewhat familiar to him, but a split-second later, the vixen vanished and appeared right in front of him, Ecks felt a sudden pain in his gut that winded him, when he looked down, he saw that the cloaked vixen had slammed her knee square into his stomach, then Rage attacked, punching Ecks in the chest, sending him flying towards a jagged wall of the cave, Ecks steadied his body and came to a halt inches away from what would have certainly killed him, Rage was relentless in his attacks as Ecksreacted quick enough to teleport out of the way before the black vulpine smashed his fist into the wall, Ecks was about use a telekinetic throw, but found himself slamming against the top of the cave with a heavy thud, Ecks was still conscious however as he saw that the blue vixen was concentrating, this would be more difficult than he thought, the vixen not only possessed physical fighting ability, but also telekinesis, Ecks saw the ground coming up at him as he realized that he was about to slam into it, he stopped himself from hitting the ground, apparently his powers were greater than those of the cloaked vixen, but didn't help him when she jumped into the air and landed both of her knees on his back, slamming him face-first into the ground, Ecks stood up slowly as Rage rushed at him, the dark blue vulpine could still react in time to teleport out of the way of an oncoming kick, but unfortunately he couldn't react quick enough as he realized that the cloaked vixen had also teleported right behind him, he felt a throbbing pain in the back of his head as the vixen's boot collided with it, making his body fall limply to the ground.
"Okay, that's it." The dark blue vulpine weakly said, slowly getting to his feet.
Rage rushed at Ecks again, but as the black vulpine was just inches away from digging his claws into Ecks' face, a powerful force slammed into his chest, sending him flying several feet backwards into another wall, Ecks could tell that the cloaked vixen was behind him as he also teleported, the dark blue vulpine could only go on the defense as the two enemy foxes were ruthless, he would need to get both of them in his telekinetic hold to do any damage, every time one of them came within inches of striking Ecks, he would teleport to another area in the cave, a few minutes of dodging and the dark blue vulpine found his chance as the two enemies were both attacking from his front, each of them leaped into the air, unfortunately for the two, Ecks had caught both as they were held in mid-air, both bodies slammed against the roof of the cave and then the ground, then as they were held in mid-air once again, Ecks held his paws straight in front of him, it could be seen that a sphere was being formed in front of the dark blue vulpine, the sphere was being made from the air as it had no color, but was clear, a moment later, the sphere separated into two spheres and shot at Rage and the cloaked vixen, the balls of air collided with the two helpless bodies and sent each crashing into a wall.
"Thank Goddess that's over." Ecks said as his breaths were heavy, but as the dust cleared from the crash, he could see that Rage and the vixen were still conscious, Ecks felt pressure against his chest as he was slammed against the wall behind him.
"You would like to think it was that easy, wouldn't you?" Rage rhetorically asked as he dug his claws into the chest of the dark blue vulpine, resulting in an agonizing scream to escape from Ecks' muzzle, "After I kill you, that little vixen of your's will be all mine." Rage said with an evil smile.
"No." Ecks said, grabbing Rage's paw, Ecks' eyes began to completely washed over with a pure white, and the aura around his body began to glow even brighter, "NO!!" Ecks screamed, Rage jumped away quickly as he knew this power well, "YOU WILL NOT TOUCH HER!!" Ecks screamed again, his face became full of fury, and his right paw started to glow even brighter than the rest of his body, a sphere of white started to form in his paw as he held it in front of him, pointing directly at Rage, a moment later the white sphere shot from his paw, Rage barely jumped out of the way of the oncoming ball of death, but it was a diversion as Ecks appeared right behind Rage, Ecks placed his paw on the black vulpine's back, the impact could be heard around the cave as Rage's body slammed against a wall, the cloaked vixen ran at Ecks, but as soon as she got close enough, Ecks back-flipped as his foot collided with the vixen's chin, knocking her backwards, Ecks had such elegance in his flip, as his body didn't move an inch from the position it was before, Ecks then flew at the downed vixen, ready to deliver a killing blow.
"You wouldn't kill you own mother, would you?" The vixen asked with a pleading face, Ecks stopped inches from striking her, his eyes quickly changed back to their normal silver gleam as a surprised look came across his face.
"M-mother?" He questioned.
Just then, he started to float even higher in the air, it was like his body was being bound by something, he couldn't move at all, "Foolish mistake," Rage said, "I'm going to enjoy killing you slowly." Rage leaped into the air, scratching the face of the dark blue vulpine, this process kept repeating as Rage would leap and dig his claws into any part of Ecks' body he could, blood flowed from every gash on his body that was created by the evil black vulpine,, there was only one thing he could do as he concentrated his thoughts.
Cross pursued his father with every intent to kill, a few moments of running at immense speed passed until the dark red vulpine came to a dead-end, "I know you're here you bastard!" Cross yelled, a moment later, the black fox rose from the shadows.
"Nothing will stop me from destroying Lylat," Chaos said, drawing his sword from it's sheath and holding it in his right paw, "Not even my own creation." He said coldly.
Cross said nothing, he simply took his battle stance with his arms at his sides, nothing except for complete anger filled his eyes, Chaos dashed at Cross, slicing downward at the young vulpine, Cross moved out of the way as the sword left a large crack in the ground, slicing through the rock as if it were butter, Cross then threw his left leg out in a roundhouse kick attempt, Chaos ducked this attack and sliced at Cross with the sword again, the tip of the sword nicked Cross' left arm as he barely dodged the deadly attack, a few drops of blood came from his arm, Cross threw a straight punch into the black vulpine's chest, and connected with great force, sending Chaos back into the wall behind him, his body didn't even get a chance to bounce from the wall as Cross' elbow made contact with the black vulpine's gut almost as soon as he hit, Chaos still retaliated however, and shot leg forward, connecting with Cross' chest, knocking him back several feet, Cross looked up just in time to see the black vulpine leap into the air pointing his sword directly at the dark red vulpine's face, Cross managed to barely move out of the way of what would have been his death, but he didn't react in time to dodge the fist that collided with his chin, sending him crashing into a wall with destructive impact, Cross couldn't react to the knee that impacted his stomach, completely winding the young vulpine as drops of blood escaped his muzzle, Chaos grabbed Cross by the collar of his shirt and slammed him face-first into the ground, the black vulpine then locked his arm around Cross' neck and held the barely conscious vulpine up with his left arm.
"You will die here and now, you cannot stop the inevitable," Chaos harshly said, "You are no hero, you are and always will only be a killer."
"FUCK YOU!!" Cross screamed as he shot his head backwards, crashing into the black vulpine's nose, this caused Chaos to release his lock on Cross' neck, Cross then grabbed Chaos' arm and hurled him into one of the walls on the cave, as Chaos recovered, he saw that Cross was undergoing a transformation of some sorts, Cross was holding the sides of his head in pain, he dropped to his knees and looked up at the roof of the cave, his eyes started to completely flush over with red, Chaos took his chance and leaped at Cross, holding his sword high above his head, he thrust his blade down toward the young vulpine, but just before the blade would have certainly pierced his skull, Cross caught the blade with his right paw, and then snapped the blade in two seemingly without effort, this struck both fear and shock into the eyes of Chaos as he backed away slowly.
"I may just be a killer, but it was YOU who made me a killer, and now you will pay." Cross said, Chaos lunged at Cross again, despite his shock, he threw a punch at the young vulpine, Chaos didn't strike anything even though Cross hadn't moved from his position, then Chaos felt the air escape from his body as he looked down to see a dark red arm extending from his stomach, leading to the vulpine in front of him, then in an instant, Chaos' body was sent flying into the roof of the cave, courtosy of an uppercut from Cross, as Chaos' body fell limply towards the ground, Cross shot his right leg straight up, cracking the black fox square in the back of the head, as Chaos front-flipped in mid-air, Cross smashed his left knee into the vulpine's face all in one swift motion.
"Now you can do the dying." Cross said, Chaos couldn't fight anymore as Cross stood over the defeated vulpine, raising his paw into the air, ready to strike the final, deadly blow, but he felt something in his mind, his eyes quickly reverted back to their original golden shine, Ecks was in trouble, Cross didn't know what to do, here he was, with possibly his only chance to finally exact his revenge, and yet his brother was also on the verge of death.
"Go on, kill me, or have you suddenly become soft?" A weak Chaos said, Cross lowered his paw and turned around.
"You'll die on a different day." The dark red vulpine growled before snatching the small bag from Chaos' side and speeding off to help his brother.
Ecks had cuts and gashes all over his body as he was held in the air by the telekinetic force of the cloaked vixen while Rage had been leaping into the air, slashing Ecks each time, Rage leaped into the air one last time, set to deliver the final deadly slash to the blue vulpine, but just as Rage was close enough to end Ecks' life, a red flash appeared and slammed into the black vulpine's face, Ecks smiled, he could finally concentrate, the blue vulpine closed his eyes, then they re-opened a dark blue color, Ecks freed himself from the telekinetic force that bound his body, suddenly the cloaked vixen was sent flying into a wall and bounced off with a sickening impact, Ecks floated towards her as she lay on the ground.
"Even our own mother is against us." Ecks said as a white aura started to gather in his paw, suddenly he felt a pain in the back of his head as his body fell to the ground, Rage picked up the injured vixen and dashed deeper into the cave, Cross helped his brother stand.
"We need to go after them!" Cross yelled, Ecks fell to his knees in pain.
"I can't fight anymore in this condition." Ecks said as his breaths were heavy.
"Then I'll fight them myself!" Cross yelled again as he set himself to follow Rage.
"No, you will die if you fight them alone."
"I don't care, they must pay!" Cross argued
"No, brother!" Ecks yelled despite his pain, "We need to find a way out of here." But just as these words were spoken, a large black figure busted through a wall, black cloak's hood fell down and a grey wolf's face was revealed, the lupine had a black scar running down the entire right side of his face, the wolf also had a patch over his right eye as well.
"This is too good, like takin' candy from a baby." The wolf said as he noticed that Ecks was in extreme pain and Cross was tired as well, Cross took his battle stance, he didn't have much left in him because of the fight with Chaos, but he wasn't about to give up, the large lupine rushed at Cross, the wolf was fast, but nothing Cross couldn't handle, a large fist shot downward at the red vulpine, Cross quickly evaded the punch with ease, then he jumped into the air, spinning as he did so, he landed a heavy kick to the lupine's jaw, normally, a kick from Cross with that much power would have either killed them, or sent them flying, but the lupine only stumbled back a few steps, Cross was shocked, but he still leaped into the air ready to land another kick to the lupine's head, but just as Cross' leg was coming down, the lupine grabbed Cross' leg and slammed him against the ground head-first, Cross fell unconscious from the immense impact.
"You little shit! That fuckin' hurt!" The cloaked lupine yelled, rubbing his chin, he turned to the barely standing Ecks, the blue vulpine couldn't fight at all, blood had leaked into his right eye as he closed it tightly, the large lupine was twice Ecks' own size, the lupine rushed at Ecks, the blue vulpine wasn't prepared as the lupine grabbed Ecks by the throat and slammed him against a wall, Ecks had passed out from the loss of blood mixed with the excruciating pain from being slammed with such force.
"Now just one thing left to do," The lupine said as he walked over to an unconscious Cross, still holding Ecks by the neck, he picked Cross from the ground by the neck as well, and held both vulpine in front of him, "Goodbye kids." He said, just then, an explosion erupted where the cave-in had occured, startling the large grey wolf, Fox, Krystal and Zivia stepped into the cave as the dust cleared, Hax and Alexia followed a moment later, Fox recognized the large grey lupine from Coluxine.
"You!" Fox yelled, Zivia noticed Ecks was held in the paw of the lupine.
"Put him down!" The orange vixen yelled.
"Fine." The wolf said with a grin as he slammed Ecks' body onto the ground hard.
"SON OF A BITCH!!" Zivia screamed as she ran at the wolf, the lupine had dropped Cross as he watched the vixen rush him.
"Zivia, wait!" Fox yelled, but the vixen didn't listen, as Zivia drew within striking range, the lupine shot his fist at her, the vixen moved out of the way, jumped into the air, and landed a round-house kick onto the side of the lupine's head, she jumped back quickly but the wolf grabbed her leg and flung the vixen back towards Fox and the others, suddenly, Zivia stopped in mid-flight before impacting against the four animals, she saw that Ecks had temporarily regained consciousness and stopped the vixen from getting hurt.
"I made a promise." Ecks said before passing out yet again, Zivia landed on her feet as the group faced off with this huge lupine, Fox noticed something though.
"Single attacks don't hurt him much," He told the group, "We need to attack in bunches, don't stop!" Fox said as he charged the cloaked lupine, the rest of the group quickly followed, when Fox was close, the lupine swung his arm at the vulpine, but Fox ducked under the massive arm and kicked the lupine in the chin, back-flipping as he did so, Fox then leaped into the air and did three full spins, the heel of his boot collided with the massive lupine's head, Fox landed and kneeled to the ground, Alexia ran up the vulpine's back and used his shoulders as a springboard, she extended both of her legs outward as she came down onto the lupine, both of her feet slamming into his chest, the lupine stumbled back a bit, Hax was next to run at the lupine, slamming his knee into the wolf's stomach, causing the lupine to let out a gasp, and then smashing his elbow square into the wolf's nose, the cloaked enemy had no chance at all to fight back as Zivia leaped into the air, coming down with a heavy axe-kick onto the lupine's head, he became dazed, but as Krystal ran at the lupine, he suddenly shot his paw out, and hit the vixen dead-on in her chest, sending her flying into Fox, the two slammed against a wall with a heavy impact, Hax went for an upper-cut, but the cloaked lupine grabbed his arm, lifted him into the air, and slammed him onto the ground hard back-first, resulting in a loud scream of pain to erupt from Hax's muzzle, Alexia charged at the large lupine, but he caught her off-guard by grabbing her by her throat and throwing the she-wolf into a wall, her body hit with a sickening thud, Zivia was the only one left standing, but she wasn't going down without a fight.
"This hardly seems fair." The large wolf said, spitting out a clot of blood.
"Yeah I know, maybe I should tie my arms behind my back." Zivia returned with a cocky grin, the lupine charged at Zivia, as he shot his fist at her, she side-stepped it and smashed her palm into the lupine's nose, blood gushed from the lupine's nose as he grabbed it in pain, Zivia squatted down into her unique fighting stance, her left leg was extended while her right leg was underneath her body, supporting her weight, her arms were spread out behind her back, the lupine charged at her once again, Zivia quickly kicked her right leg up and connected with the wolf's chin, but as she made contact, the lupine grabbed her leg, and hurled the vixen towards a jagged-edged wall, Zivia almost made impact with the wall of death but Cross had regained his consciousness and tackled her, making certain that both of them were safe, Cross struggled to stand, but couldn't, he was too worn out to fight anymore, the large lupine walked toward Zivia and the injured Cross, he raised his fist into the air, Zivia closed her eyes and waited for the inevitable, but she felt nothing, the vixen opened her eyes to see that the lupine was struggling to break free of some unknown force, she looked at Ecks, the blue vulpine had come to, and had the large lupine's arm placed in a bind.
"Now Krystal!" Ecks shouted, the cerulean furred vixen ran up to the cloaked wolf, her staff drawn, the barrel that was placed onto it before was now no longer there, Krystal jabbed her staff into the lupine's stomach, seconds later, a ball of fire escaped from the lupine's back, the wolf's body fell limply to the ground, Cross lay on the ground, not daring to even try to get up, the rest of the group had recovered but were still feeling the effects of the fight, Ecks tried searching for the thought patterns of Chaos, Rage, and the cloaked vixen, but he couldn't find anything.
"Dammit, we were so close this time." Ecks said as Zivia came to his aid.
"Are you okay?" Zivia said, pulling Ecks' limp upper body towards her and firmly embracing him.
"I'll be fine, just a few scrapes and bruises," Ecks' eyes started to become heavy, "I need to sleep." He said before passing out once again.
"Well, this whole trip was wasted, I hate knowing that we came up empty-handed on this one." Fox said.
Cross popped his trademark smirk, "Not completely." He weakly said, pulling a small bag from his pocket.
Author's Note: I hope the action was good in this one, I really wanted to try and make this as good as possible, the next few chapters will probably be a bit slow, considering the hell that they just went through. Oh, and I feel like I should explain this, the reason I put a little "Song of the Day" is because when I read over an actiony chapter, not just my chapters, but any actiony chapter when I'm reading a story, I will end up playing a few songs while I read, it's basically stating what I feel is the best song for the chapter that I listened to, if that makes any sense. But yeah, thanks for reading and the support, please review and I'll see you next time.
Ignorant? Me? Ha, I don't even know what that means. ~Metallic Soul