Me: Finally!
Aqua: What is it?
Me: we get to Asgard.
Tenebrae: It only took you seven chapters.
Me: Yes but this chapter was fun to write! Necro is an idiot.
Aqua: Yes he is.
Me: Well, I own Sol, Twilight, and Dark and Semi-own the monsters.
Angelic Rebirth Ch.7
"Stay away from her!"
"We won't let you hurt her you monster!"
All I want to do is heal her you idiots! I think I should kill you both right now!
I groaned and sat up. Dida and Moll were next to me in an instant.
"Are you okay, Twilight?"
"We saved you from that imp that was attacking you."
"Necro, what happened?" I completely ignored the twins and looked at the imp.
You fainted from mana exhaustion and…
"Are you listening to us?"
"We saved you from that demon." Necro started to mutter under his breath.
"Don't you dare call Necro a demon!" I snapped at them "Necro, you were saying?" I turned back to him.
Those little ungrateful…I tried to heal you but those two came and tried to chase me away. Can I kill them? He didn't like them and I couldn't blame him.
"No Necro. You can't. We should go find Emil and Marta." I said standing up and grabbing my spear. I strapped it to my back and started toward the entrance.
"Wait!" They both called.
"Yes? What is it?" I asked annoyed.
"Why are you going to find that monster?"
"Yeah! It's his fault our city got destroyed!" I glared at them.
"He is my friend. I am sure he didn't directly destroy the town. Now, I am going. Necro, come on." I turned around and went to the entrance of the city.
With pleasure. Necro quickly followed me. We waited for a few minutes and Emil and Marta came.
"Anything happen that I need to know about?" I asked them.
"We are going after Lloyd and the centurion cores. You don't have to come if you don't want to." Marta told me. I looked over at Emil. He looked sad.
"Well I'm coming with! Who else is going to keep you out of trouble?" I smiled at them.
"Are you sure? It might not be safe." Marta obviously didn't want me to come with.
"Of course! You two will probably die before the next town without me!" I smiled. We walked all day almost uneventful. I was walking in front with Sial, Marta and Emil were behind me, and Necro, Gale, and Tenebrae in the back.
"Ugh! My feet are killing me! Can we stop now? Please?" Marta whined.
"We should keep walking till sunset so we can get there faster." I said. My feet were killing me too. Not that I would admit that.
"Maybe we should stop for awhile." Emil added. I looked at him.
"If we keep walking for a little while longer we won't have to walk that far tomorrow." I stated.
"Ugh. I hate this!"
"Maybe you can ride on Sial after he evolves." Tenebrae offered from the back of the group.
"Evolves?" Everyone looked at him.
"Yes, when a monster is strong enough then using special magic it can change form. While this does not happen with all monsters some monsters can change into multiple forms." Tenebrae explained.
"So how do we use this magic?" I asked.
"I am not sure. Only monsters used to know this magic." I face palmed. Various forms of "I can't do it" came from the monsters in the party.
"But they say they can't cast it." Emil said. Marta looked at Emil as I smiled.
"Congratulations, Emil! You can now understand monsters! Now you can listen to Sial and Gale argue alllll night!" I said with a silly grin on my face.
"You sound like that's a good thing." He said with his head down.
Sorry to interrupt but I heard that the Katz can evolve monsters. Necro said.
"Thanks Necro." I said. We walked into a clearing and Marta flopped down.
"That's it! I am not moving from this spot!" She cried. I flopped down next to her.
"Finally!" I cried.
"I thought you didn't want to stop." Marta said. Emil quietly started to set up camp.
"One, its sunset and two, I'm tired." I said.
"But you acted as if it didn't bother you!"
"The key word in that sentence is acted."
"So you were tired."
"Yes I was. Happy?"
"Yes I am."
"Good."
"Will you two stop fighting and HELP ME!" Emil yelled at us. We looked over at him and saw his arm covered in blood. Marta gave a little yelp and started casting a healing spell. I sighed and started casting a spell of my own while analyzing the situation. We were fighting two wild rabbits and a skeleton. I closed my eyes and gathered fire mana around me.
"Ancient fire, send thy lance to destroy my foe! Emil! Move! Flame Lance!" Emil jumped back just as a lance fell from the sky and unleashed a fiery rage. I smirked then my wolf ears perked up. I heard something. It was very faint but defiantly there.
Someone help me!! Necro. And he was closer than before. A few seconds later Necro ran through camp followed by 8 zombies by my count. Which was off by at least oh I don't know…30…maybe?
"What was that stupid imp doing!?" Emil yelled as he cut down the last rabbit.
"I have no idea." I said and started reaching into my pack "Marta, catch!" I tossed an orange gel at her. She caught it and quickly ate it. "Sial, Gale you two stay here and keep Marta safe. Emil, let's go see what that was all about." I was annoyed by the amount of trouble Necro had gotten into. I stormed into the woods absentmindedly gathering lightning mana around me.
"No argument here. We'll be right back, Marta." He ran to follow me.
"Do you even know where to look?" He asked me as soon as we were out of ear shot of Marta.
"No. But if I keep going in this direction I'm bound to hear him or at least catch his scent…if I can get over the scent of rotting meat." I grumbled. Then my ears perked up.
"So you ha-"
"Shush! I heard something." I yelled at him. He crossed his arms and I listened.
"How in Martel's name did this many zombies appear at once!?" A familiar voice yelled. "You know what? I don't even care anymore! Judgment!" suddenly a bright flash of light appeared off to our right. I took off in that direction.
"Hey! Wait up! Twilight!" Emil called after me.
"Hurry up Emil!" I called back. I was already far ahead of him. I stumbled into a clearing to see Sol fighting off a dozen zombies at once and Necro finishing off the last zombie on him. This didn't last long until I had about 15 zombies on me.
Twilight!? You followed me!?
"Necro! Start casting First Aid!" my spear slammed into the nearest zombie along with the two behind it. All three slammed into a tree and disappeared in a puff of smoke. I smirked. One of the zombies quickly brought me back to reality. I spun my spear around and killed that zombie and the five closing in on me. Emil then jumped in front of me and easily killed 5 more.
"Take that you pathetic excuses for monsters!" He taunted. I took this opportunity to cast a spell. I was about to start the chant when someone grabbed my arm. I looked over and saw Sol's deep green eyes staring at me.
"Think this through. Feel the lightning mana in the air. Try to cast indignation." He said calmly.
"But I'm not…" he shook his head.
"You underestimate your abilities. Just try." He walked a few steps away and a holy light enveloped him and I realized what he was planning. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. He was right. There was a lot of Volt's mana here. I gathered the raw mana around me.
"From the land of the living I call upon the in the land of the dead!" I looked over at Sol who nodded his head "Indignation!" I just barley heard Sol cast his spell over the thunder in my ears.
"Ready to finish this?" He asked with a smile on his face. I smiled right back at him.
"Indignation Judgment!" We yelled. This effectively killed the rest of the zombies.
"That was just too easy." Sol threw his sword into the air spinning, caught it, and spun it once more before sheathing it.
"Show off." Emil hissed under his breath. I glared at him before turning back to Sol.
"I guess this would make us even, Sol." Emil's eyes visibly widened at my comment.
"Wait. This is the person that saved you!" Sol looked confused. I sighed.
"Tenebrae glorified you in his retelling of that fight. He said you defeated the dragon single-handedly. We should be getting back to camp." I walked off.
"Is it just me or does she seem more irritable than before?" Sol asked Emil. He shrugged.
"She's like this whenever she has her wolf ears out." And with that he went to follow me. When we got back to camp I immediately laid down on the ground.
"Emil! Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, Marta. Now can you get off of me?"
"I was so scared! I thought you would never come back!"
"Marta! Please get off of me! Twilight can you help me?" The young swordsman looked over at the half-elf only to find that she was already asleep with their wolf curled up next to her.
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I was running through a forest. The heat from the fire was everywhere. My hair kept getting into my eyes. I pushed it away impatiently and kept running. It was just a dream but it felt almost real. Like a memory. I kept running until I came to a fork in the road. Something caught my eye. A sword. It was pointing to the right. Something in the back of my mind registered this as Sol's sword. I ran in the opposite direction. It wasn't long until I came to a clearing with a burning giant tree on the far side of it. In the center of the clearing were two boys. One wore the same cloths as Emil but had short black hair and no strand sticking out of his head. He used the same weapon as Emil, too. The other one had dark brown hair went to his neck. He wore a dark blue long sleeve shirt with metal gauntlets and dark blue pants with brown boot. All of his clothes had various blood stains on them.
"Ratatosk! Dark!" I called. The one that looked like Emil looked over at me and his red eyes widened. The other one smirked and ran to him.
"Final Furry!" he spun around kicking him twice then he put his hand on the other ones stomach "Blood Destruction!" he whispered just loud enough to hear. The one that looked like Emil coughed up blood and collapsed onto his knees.
"Why you!" He yelled coughing up more blood. The other one smirked again.
"Say whatever you want, Summon Spirit, you've lost." He said coldly. Then I saw a flash of purple and felt the hilt of a sword connect with my head and collapsed.
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When I woke up the back of my head throbbed in the place where I had been hit in my dream like it had happened yesterday. I rubbed it and slowly got up. Sial, who was sleeping next to me started to stir.
Good morning. He barked sleepily. I smiled at him.
"You can go back to sleep if you want." I giggled. He barked once and went back to sleep. I looked around camp to find the imp that had caused all the trouble last night. I found him on the edge of camp staring into the forest. "Hey, Necro." He flinched almost as if he was human and turned around.
Y-Yes, T-Twilight? He stuttered.
"How did you get that many zombies to follow you?" I glared at him.
I wandered into a graveyard and they just came up out of the ground and followed me. He answered. That seemed plausible.
"Okay…and what about that spell you used in Luin." I had been wondering about that for awhile. Tenebrae appeared next to me.
"Spell? What spell would this be?" He asked curiously.
A spell that I picked up somewhere… He looked off to the side.
"Where?!" I demanded.
Just…somewhere…why does this matter? He did not like this topic. I looked over at Tenebrae.
"Tenebrae, can I ask you a question?"
"Of course." He said.
"What do you know about a spell called Abyss?" His eyes narrowed.
"Hardly anything. It's a spell that few mortals have learned and even fewer actually use. It is said that those that use it are driven mad by the power it controls. Some say that the spell itself has a mind of its own. How, may I ask, did you learn of this spell." Necro covered my mouth before I could answer.
Nowhere! She heard some of the villagers talking about it in Luin! He quickly answered.
"All right." Tenny…I like that…Tenny did not seem satisfied by that answer but he still disappeared.
I don't want the centurion of darkness to know about that. I'll tell you more about it later. In Asgard. I nodded my head to show that I understood. After a little while everyone was up and Emil had made breakfast. I didn't accept any because I wasn't that hungry. My mind kept wandering back to my dream and what Tenny had said about that spell. How did Necro know that spell? Was he really an imp? Who were those two boys in my dream? Was it a dream…or a memory? These questions danced around my head until I felt a strong gust of air.
"This is some wind." Emil said.
"Come on! Take it like a man!" Marta exclaimed.
"Yeah, Emil, it's not that bad." I added.
"That's easy to say." He hung his head.
"You may not realize this but Marta likes you, Emil. Try to be strong around her."
"Twilight is quite right, Emil!"
"I'm not sure if I can."
"What's keeping you three? Come on, we need to ask if anyone's seen Lloyd. Let's hurry." She did a little jump "Wherever Lloyd is, that's where the Centurions' cores are!" she blushed and leaned down "So let's find the mayor and ask if Lloyd's come by. Okay?"
"Right." They walked away.
"They ignored me." I grumbled and followed them.
Tenebrae: I would like it if you didn't call me Tenny.
Twilight: But it suits you!
Aqua: I prefer Tenebonehead.
Me: I prefer Tenebie.
Aqua & Twilight: Tenebie?
Me: you'll find out next chapter. I will get that in!