My Calling

Author: Cornell Valentine Gainsborough

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

MAKAI! Seperates paragraphs

Chapter 13: Double Trouble (For Nelius, anyway)

Nelius picked himself up from the floor, scattering small pieces of rubble everywhere. Shaking away the shock from the attack, he came to face Overlords Priere and Brad.

"Hi." He waved his hand, as though flying straight through a wall was a perfectly normal thing to do these days.

"What happened to you?" Brad was a bit shocked.

Even more shocking, a blur of purple came flying through the hole in the wall that Nelius had flown through, knocking the demon through the other wall, leaving Priere's Audience Hall with two new windows. Now, if she could get some glass installed, it'd become a perfect vantage point.

Right, getting back to what happened to Nelius.

Priere and Brad looked though the newly formed hole in the wall, seeing Nelius tangle with whoever it was that decided on making him a new target. When the dust settled down, they could accurately make out Nelius and his assailant, the speices RYJ Succubus.

As to what they were doing... it could most accurately be described as they each took a turn in beating the living hell out of one another.

Nelius had taken the initiative, choking the Succubus before the two had whipped themselves into a frenzy of close punching and kicking that kicked up more dust.

When it settled, the Succubus was bending his arms behind his back... painfully. Another frenzy of dust...

..And it ended with Nelius ramming the Succubus' face into a tree. When they started kicking up their cloud again, this time she'd resorted to trying to throw close range thunderbolt spells at him. One of them that had missed and bounced off the side of a tree was traveling toward the pair of Overlords. While Priere had time to dodge, Brad, on the other hand, was not as fortunate. He'd taken the full brunt of the electrical blast, leaving his fur singed and most of it sticking straight up. Little bolts of static could be seen traveling from one tuft of fur to the next as he twitched.

"That... is... ENOUGH!!" He roared, dark flames erupting from his body. The look on his face was one of pure, maniacal fury, which was enough to stop the match of 'Strangle him/her' that Nelius and the Succubus were in the middle of. When they got a good look at the Jaguar/Overlord, the phrase "Scared Shitless" would've been the understatement of the day. Forgetting their earlier argument turned fight, the two now hugged each other out of fear of being barbequed by Brad.

"Run?"

"Sounds good."

Eh, you try to figure out who said what; I'm too lazy to do it.

MAKAI!

"Huff... huff... I think we're safe." The both of them, at Nelius' idea, had hidden aboard the Phantom Cat, stumbling into the first room they'd managed to find that was unlocked.

"Let's hope so." He still remembered seeing him unleashing those dark flames. "I don't think I've ever seen anyone get that pissed off before."

"Especially after being toasted by a thunderbolt." She then thought back to that. "Then again, if his fur was thicker, we could've called him a walking fluffball."

"Oh yes, a cat with an afro." The both of them began to laugh.

"Nice to see you two are getting along." A voice caused the two of them, who were hiding behind the bed, to turn their heads over to who had addressed them, fear written across their faces, though they relaxed.

"Oh, I remember you." Nelius recognized the Elbacky that had helped him out back on Brad's Netherworld. "Where'd you come from?"

"This is my room. You remember, space was limited."

"Oh, yeah. I'll be going now." Completely forgetting about Brad still raising hell outside the ship, Nelius stood up, walked over to the door, and left.

"As for you.." The Elbacky regarded the Succubus by dashing over to her and practically, for a lack of a better term, tackle-hugged the Succubus. "Kyaaaaah! It's been such a long time!" At least, this is what she was going for.

"Uh, do I know you?" The Elbacky fell over, right there on the spot.

"Don't tell me you forgot! We told each other that we'd keep in contact with each other, no matter the distance." She scrambled to her feet, standing face to face with the other woman.

"Oh, yes, I remember." She put a finger to her lips in thought. "Still, who are you?" Cue the Felynn falling to the ground again.

"Esara!" She screeched at her. To this, she got a laugh as a reply.

"Only a joke, Radara. I could never forget the Living Radar." To that, the Elbacky called Radara's face began to burn a bright red.

"Do you have to use that nickname?"

"Come now, it's only a appropriate title. After all, you were always good at finding things nobody else could." Esara just teased.

MAKAI!

Nelius, who had left a moment before that conversation, was staring out the front window, watching as Brad seemingly ran around in circles, working off his rage on the little mushrooms and that were fleeing in terror.

'Better wait until he cools off.' As he headed back to his room, he overheard a small part of the ladies' conversation, mostly the part about the "living radar" bit. 'Wouldn't touch that conversation with a fifteen foot pole.' He continued walking along, unaware of something very odd that was soon to happen.

MAKAI!

For a while, I had the idea of adding in another non-Felynn into the story, mostly to help alleviate the alien feeling Nelius would be having right about now. Then, while playing La Pucelle, and clearing out the Dark Shrine, I saw the art style used in the game to depict the monsters, and that gave me the idea for the names of the different Succubi types depicted in N1 titles.

Also, adding in a new character that had some backstory with the Elbacky, Radara, was actually the idea of my friend, so some credit goes to him as well.

Until next chapter,

Cornell Valentine Gainborough