Chapter Sixteen

David and Cory vs. Zylo

"Everyone," David called, "go back to camp! This is Zylo, and he'll destroy or kill anyone or anything that gets in his way! I've beaten him before–well with Cory's help!"

"But," Candice started.

"Candice, I'll be okay," David said, smiling at her.

"Alright," Lance called, "come on you all!" Then they left, and David automatically transformed back to himself! "What?" Then he pulled out the Light Sword, and ran towards Cory. Cory noticed him through the corner of his eyes.

"What the hell are you doing here," he grunted.

"Well if it isn't David," Zylo said in his deep, growling voice. "Looks like you'll fall here tonight too! Ha ha ha ha!" Then, he took another slash at Cory. WHAM! A direct hit! Cory flew backwards and then disappeared! Then, Zylo ran towards David, and tried an uppercut–slash! David was frozen on the spot; he wouldn't move! Then, Cory reappeared in front of David, and tried to stab Zylo with his Assassin Daggers, but missed! The good thing though, was that Zylo fell over the daggers, and before hitting the ground, he did a perfect front flip, and he disappeared!

"You know," Cory started, shooting a sinister look at him, "if you're going to help, don't act like a damn tree!" Then, Cory disappeared, and Zylo reappeared, and did another uppercut-slash against David! This time, David was ready. He hurled his sword out in front of him, and yelled, "Dash–'n–Slash," and he sprinted towards Zylo with tremendous speed, and also glowing white! But, Zylo was already familiar with this move, and grabbed the sword that David was about to slash him with, and threw him towards the trees! David, who was still glowing white which meant he was still speedy, slammed into the tree trunk, at remarkable speed! He fell back, dropped his sword and where he hit the trunk was an extremely large hole!

"Urgh," he puffed out.

"Now, that'll teach you to respect me," Zylo growled as he looked at David. Then, from behind Zylo, Cory reappeared and stabbed him in the back extremely deep! Zylo, now bleeding malevolently, grabbed Cory from behind his back, leaving the daggers in his back, and holding Cory up with the left claw, he yelled, "Crush Claw!" Zylo's right claw then glowed white, and he shoved it into Cory's chest, and through his back!

"AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG," Cory screamed. David just watched, as his friend was being murdered, and hatred was building inside himself. "David," Cory called to him as Zylo was moving his claw inside of Cory, who was bleeding worse than each of them, "kill…Zylo… for me…or you…will be kn-known as…a…pathetic…loser…urgh…" Then, Zylo took Cory off of his claw, and threw him aside. Cory now looked as though he died.

"Now," Zylo said, advancing on David, who was just barely conscious, and was still sitting by the tree, "you'll learn that you shouldn't have messed with me before…a few years ago." Then, David started to float upwards, and an aqua-blue color surrounded his whole body! Then, it blasted in every direction and Zylo was blasted backwards, and landed on the ground with a thud. In the place where the color was, Dragoon David stood there, giving the terrified Zylo a fierce look! Zylo stood up, and ran towards David. Then David yelled, "Water Spear!" Right in front of David was the formed ice sculpture of a sharp spear. It launched at Zylo immediately and blasted him backwards again! When it hit him, the ice broke, and turned into super, freezing, cold water, freezing the stunned Zylo in a block of ice! Zylo flew through the air, and then he landed; the ice breaking into shards! Then, David yelled, "Psy-Shards!" His eyes went white, and he raised his right hand right in front of himself. David gained control of the ice shards, and raised them up. A terrified look came across Zylo's face when he saw the shards. Then, David dropped his hand but stopped suddenly when his fingers lined up with Zylo. The shards shot in Zylo's direction, with the sharpest points facing down! Zylo jumped up, and, with his metal claws, started to slash at the shards! Some of them ricocheted off of Zylo's claws and were headed for Cory! Even though he looked dead, David regained control of those shards, and shot them back to Zylo. Then, someone in David's head said slowly and softly, "Psy-David." David gasped, and his eyes changed from white to blood-red. Zeig had cut in! He forced David to run through the shards, grab Cory, and run back into the shards! The ice was piercing each of them! Then, Zylo pushed David, who was holding a dead looking Cory, out of the shards, and David's eyes turned into his normal eyes again! Zeig lost his control! Meanwhile, Zylo battled the shards even more. The shards on the ground were coming back up again! Zeig has taken control of the shards, now that David lost control!

"Urgh," Zylo struggled, getting pierced with ice while still moving his claws fast to deflect the oncoming shards!

"Let me help," David yelled, laying Cory down on his back. Then, he yelled, "Control Crush!" The ice then started to slow down and finally stop, and all of it dropped to the ground and broke. Zeig lost control again! Then, Zylo knelt down.

"You saved me," he said in amazement, looking down and panting wildly. "After everything I did to you and Cory…thanks. How can I repay you? Anything, I'll do anything you want."

"You must give me your word, that you won't murder anyone you see, except for the people who attack you," David said in a stern voice.

"Yes, well you see," he started with a calm but firm voice, as David started to walk away, "the people from Mille Seseau think that I'm the rightful king because they know that I'll kill them if they don't respect me." He chuckled; David stopped, as Zylo continued. "You see," he started as he got up on his right leg, "I won't let that title be taken from me so easily…so prepare to fall!" Zylo leaped towards David, while holding a claw in front of himself like a shield, and the other held up like a sword!

"We won't let that happen," yelled two voices.