Hope everyone liked the last chapter. For some reason I got a little emotional when I wrote it. BTW the fact about Monty Oum being the undefeated Atlas regional tournament champion three years straight would not be wrong. Pyrrha's record would still stand. Also if you're wonder why he isn't champ for four years, that because he didn't enter his first year. Okay now that's out of the way. ENJOY THE CHAPTER!
Chapter 12: The legendary rose
"Get up." Cinder said coldly.
"Huh?" I ask as I wake up from my deep sleep.
"You have a fight today." She says to me.
"I do?" I ask "Oh crap. I do!"
"Yes so be prepared." Cinder says as she lets me out if my cage.
"Wish me luck." I say as the roof opened up and I am once again raised into the arena for my final battle, in more ways than one.
Hey if I fail. I don't have to fight anymore, but Cinder will kill everyone. I think. And if I succeed I will one of the greatest huntresses Remnant has ever known, but then I will have to fight Cinder.
"What am I going to do?" I ask myself aloud.
"WELCOME LADIES AND GENTLEMEN TO THE ONE ON ONE BATTLE OF THE VYTAL FESTIVAL. ON THIS SIDE WE HAVE THE UNDEFEATED ATLAS REGIONAL CHAMPION, THE GREAT MONTY OUM." The announcer said as everyone in the crowd burst into cheers.
"Thank you everyone." Monty said to the crowd.
"AND ON THIS SIDE WE HAVE THE GODDESS OF FLIGHT, LILY ROSE." The announcer said. At this is activated my wings, but the crowd started booing me.
"LET'S HAVE A GOOD CLEAN FIGHT. AND BEGIN!" at this Monty quickly pulled out his weapon and tried to cut me in half.
"Woah." I say as I do a back handspring to dodge his attack.
"Hold still!" He says as he continues to attack, but I continue to successfully dodge his attacks. I then cause a flurry of black rose petals with my wings and soar up above him.
"Haha. You can't hit what you can't reach." I say taunting him.
"Okay dodge this." He says as he folds in the blades of his scythe and points the end of it at me as hundreds of bullets start flying towards me.
"How were you able to master the LMG scythe." I ask as I activate my speed in order to dodge the bullets.
"It's not that much harder than any ordinary weapon." He says as he sends another spray of bullets my way. This time one of the bullets goes right through my wing.
"Bloody hell that hurts!" I exclaim as I start to fall due to my injured wing.
"Looks like we're even now." Monty says.
"Looks like it." I say as I rush him with Black Rose. For some reason he doesn't move whatsoever and just takes the hit. I make contact and he falls to the ground. I look at the aurameter and I notice that his aura hasn't even gone down by one percent.
"But how? That should have dropped you to at least 60%!" I exclaim.
"One thing you should know about me is that my semblance is invincibility, so no matter what hits me my aura will NEVER go down." He informs me as he picks himself up off the ground.
"Oh shit." I say as I start running.
Monty the pulls out his weapon and starts sending thousands of bullets at me.
How the hell am I going to beat him if I can't drop his aura. I think. Oh duh I can drain his aura.
"Stop running and face me." He said trying to taunt me and it works. I run right up to him and he goes to slice me in half with his scythe, but at just the right moment I grab his arm and stop the attack.
"Is this your plan?" He says as he pushes me off.
"You have no idea." I say as I disappear in a flash of black petals. I run around him and start rush close enough to drain his aura. After each time I make contact with him I feel stronger. I look up at the aurameter and I notice that my aura is now up to 50% and his is down to 61%.
I did the math and it works. Back to the story.
That was close. I was just about into the red. If I got hit one more time I would have been out.
"What are you doing to me?" He asked.
"I'm draining…" I say as I pass by him taking more aura. "Your… aura."
"How many abilities do you have?" He asked as he fell to one of his knees.
"Just the draining at first, but I have gathered a few through my time at Beacon." I say as I stop right behind him with my hand on his shoulder. I then drain the rest of his aura down to zero.
"How could you?" He asked.
"I'm sorry I did it for my friends and family. But thanks for the invincibility." I say as I hold out my hand to help him up.
"At least you're a good sport about it." He says as he accepts my hand up, but then suddenly an arrow came flying from the rafters and hit Monty in the chest.
"Monty!" People in the crowd shouted.
Monty fell into my arms gasping for air.
"Don't worry I will avenge you." I say as he turns to dust in my hands. "Your memory will live on in me and all your fans."
Everyone in the crowd was now gone, but I was crying trying to hold onto the legend that just disappeared in my arms.
"Lily we have to go." Vlad said as he put a hand on my shoulder.
"I'll kill her for this!" I exclaim as I get up off the ground and grabbed Black Rose which was a few meters away.
Watch out Cinder. I'm coming for you.
I dedicate this chapter and this story to the memory of Monty Oum. You will never die as long your work lives on.
BigEZ98