RISE OF LIGHT
Chapter 10
Part 1
"Hurry up and wake up dammit!" someone was shouting at him and shaking him.
In the background there were noises and sounds that sounded like explosions. All fof this made no sense to him but he kept his eyes closed.
"Dammit!" that same voice roared in his ears. "Don't sleep at a time like this!"
This again made no real impact to him so he continued to remain silent and still as the sounds grew louder and louder.
"Are you going to abandon your comrades at a time when they need you the most?" the same voice roared. "Wake up, Vertrexia!"
Suddenly, with the impact of a bullet with those words, Vertrex opened his eyes in a flash. For a second his gaze was muffled with dust and wind.
"Wow" he thought as his gaze gradually became more accurate "There is a lot of wind" then he remembered about the dark user.
He sat up quickly and became aware of a huge bangs and explosions as if a battle was taking place somewhere away from him or so he thought at that time as he became more in tune with his surroundings again.
He looked around and saw Kayla and Sophia, crouching over the rocks that have crowded round here, and were gazing into the distant where there appears to be a savage battle
"Where are Alex and Daniel? What on Earth have I missed while I was knocked out?"
"What the heck is going on?" Vertrex shouted above the roaring noise of the wind.
Kayla jumped and Sophia quickly looked around and hugged Vertrex tightly.
"Daniel and Alex are struggling to fight the dark user that had knocked you out." Sophia said quickly over the loud hammering of the sound of the battle, her eyes brimming with tears
.
"Daniel!" Kayla suddenly screamed.
Vertrex quickly looked in the direction of where she was pointing. He could see Daniel and Alex now, their forms sometimes clouded by the swirling dust around them. They appeared to have stopped fighting. Vertrex didn't understand why they stopped fighting when suddenly he saw what had made them stop fighting.
A huge ball, like the one that he had used "Dragon Heart" against to deflect, was soaring straight towards them.
"Idiots!" Vertrex bellowed. "Get the hell out of there you guys!" but deep down he knew they couldn't have heard him.
"Damn!" Vertrex cursed getting to his feet "I'm going to save them!"
"How can you save the both of them when you yourself don't have any energy left in you to heal yourself?" Sophia screamed above the roaring noise of the wind.
"I … don't?" Vertrex roared and suddenly Sophia and Kayla were buffeted by the sudden power that Vertrex released. His power started to swirl around him, giving him more momentum and started to walk towards his friends as the death ball came closer to Daniel and Alex's standing spots.
The ball was very close and Daniel was frantic to try and escape from this ball but the main problem for him was that Alex was completely frozen solid on where he stood. Suddenly Daniel got an idea that would make Alex 'unfreeze'.
Daniel turned towards Alex and raising his hands, he shouted "Lightning Bolt".
A struck of lighting shot away from Daniel's hands and struck Alex in the face. Alex suddenly screamed with shock as his whole body felt the powerful zap of lighting and finally he knelt, panting and looked at Daniel, angry faced.
"What was that for?" Alex shouted angrily at Daniel.
"I have an idea that'll save us from this situation." Daniel shouted back.
It was getting harder to hear over the howling sound of the wind as it buffeted their faces as they stood, glaring at the oncoming energy ball.
"Use your most powerful attack at the ball and I'll use mine. That way we can perhaps have a chance of pushing it back at that freak of a dark user." Daniel shouted.
For a second Alex seemed to hesitate but finally nodded in agreement. Both boys stood, now facing the death ball, all thought of death gone from their minds, they thought of their most powerful attack, raised their hand in unison and yelled:
Alex: "Mega Wing Blaster"
Daniel: "Dragon Fire Cosmo"
Jets of beams were shot from both of them and hit the death ball as it touched the ground. Daniel and Alex struggled to hold their beams as the death ball's attack seemed overwhelming when suddenly a familiar voice from behind them roared:
"Magna Force"
In an instant both Daniel and Alex felt a tremendous pressure and to their surprise they saw the death ball come to a stop and did not move any further. Both Daniel and Alex looked back to see who had used that powerful attack to make the ball stop and were surprised to see who had shot that attack.
Vertrex.
It looked like Vertrex was back on his feet but when they looked closer, they realised Vertrex was only using his left hand to hold the ball at bay while his right hand hung loose on his side. They wondered what he was doing with applying power from one of his hands when suddenly Vertrex pulled it right hand back and looked directly into their eyes. For a moment, they looked shocked but suddenly Vertrex nodded and they understood it to mean: "Let's finish this!"
They looked at each other and nodded in agreement. Turing back to face the gigantic form of the "Death Ball", still held steady by Vertrex's hand, they braced themselves to exert more power than before.
"NOW!"
Daniel and Alex increased their beams even to greater power and they suddenly felt a massive force on their backs which meant that Vertrex had released all the energy he had been gathering in his right hand.
With the combined powers, they pushed the death ball back at its caster.
"What's going on?" The dark user screamed as his own attack suddenly came very close to touching him but suddenly the attack stopped.
"Damn!" Daniel shouted.
"We need to exert more power!" Alex shouted above the roaring noise of the wind.
Then they heard Vertrex above the loud roaring wind that made their eyes water.
"Light Flash"
Turning around they just caught the sight of Vertrex disappearing into thin air. They wondered, for a brief second, where Vertrex had gone to when suddenly a thought struck them.
"No way!" Daniel shouted "He's not seriously going to do what I'm thinking he's going to do!"
"I think he is!" Alex shouted back.
Behind the death ball, the dark user was struggling to get a grip on it so that he can repel it back at those feeble being still standing and firing away with their beams, hoping to get him.
"You feeble minded insolent dogs!" the dark user taunted them. "Did you actually think this will work against me?"
Daniel and Alex suddenly felt being pushed back by the sudden force the dark user was apply at the death ball. They were running out of energy fast and didn't know how long they can keep going with their beams but they were also worried to what Vertrex might be planning.
"Go my sweet death ball. Show them that you cannot be stopped. Show them no mercy."
"The only one who doesn't deserve any mercy is you." said a quiet voice from behind the dark user.
The dark user swirled around in shock but too late, Vertrex has already had a hold on him by his face. The dark user struggled to break free from Vertrex's strong grip and shouting curses that sounded muffled because of Vertrex's hand reducing his voice.
"Curse you! Curse you! Curse you!" the dark user was saying through muffled tones as he struggled to break free.
"The curses you said on me will be wasted. After all, you only live once." Vertrex said coolly as he continued to watch the dark user struggle.
Suddenly the dark user wrapped his hands around Vertrex, rendering Vertrex's from unable to move.
"If I'm going to die, I'll take you with me!" the dark user roared.
Back down on the ground, Daniel and Alex suddenly saw that the dark user had got hold of Vertrex as well.
"Damn, Vertrex is in the way!" Daniel shouted.
"We've got no choice!" Alex screamed.
"I'm not going to kill my best friend just because I want to kill an evil dude" Daniel retorted back.
Alex looked at Daniel pityingly.
"Well we've got no choice"
"I'm not heartless like you to shoot at a friend even if it's for the greater good!" Daniel yelled.
Alex looked shocked and shouted "I'm not heartless. I'm saying the facts of reality that we need to do."
"Whatever the case, I'm not going to push my power any higher." Daniel shouted.
Daniel looked back up at his friend's form from behind the death ball.
"Please Vertrex." Daniel thought "I trust that you have a plan Vertrex so hurry up and put it to action."
Chapter 10
Part 2
"Will you look at that" the dark user taunted. "Your friends are such sloppy idiots to hesitate just because I've got a hold of you."
"Their care for me is what's making them hesitate you moron!" Vertrex replied calmly.
The dark user turned back to stare at Vertrex's face and realised that he seemed calm, rather, he's smiling.
"What's so enjoyment here when you know we're both going to go down?"
"Both?" Vertrex repeated as if he misunderstood what he just heard "I think you're mistaken. It's not "both". It's just one … you."
"Me?" the dark user said in surprise before roaring with laughter. "So you think you can kill me?" and he roared with laughter again. "Don't make me laugh boy. I have locked your hands so you can't use any of them to attack me and I've seen you perform some major attacks with your hands."
"It's true that I do perform some of my attacks with my hands but" Vertrex said, laying a heavy stress on the last word "there are other attacks that I can use without my hands."
"What?" the dark user said in shock before roaring with laughter. "Come now boy. You bluffed your way before seeing as I underestimated you but this … hahaha … this won't work on me."
"Bluff you say… well I think I've wasted enough time on you either way. I'm going to make it simple and easy for you." Vertrex said. "You won't even know what hit you."
"Be serious boy." The dark user said, still smiling his sadistic smile. "I know you're through!"
Vertrex didn't reply for a few seconds and for a moment the dark user thought he had him when, all of a sudden, Vertrex shouted "Heavens Shock burst"
The dark user suddenly started screaming his lungs out as waves of shocking lightning coursing through his body, zapping every part of his nerves all-in-while giving him an unbearable pain.
"What's … happening!" the dark user managed to say in between his screams of pain.
"You didn't believe me that I can project an attack without my hands and here is proof that I can and it will be your downfall." Vertrex shouted over the dark user's screams.
"Look at Vertrex!" Alex suddenly shouted to Daniel.
Daniel didn't need telling as he too noticed what Vertrex was doing. He started to smile in great happiness.
"I told you Vertrex can come through this" Daniel shouted, still smiling.
"What? You knew he was going to do this?" Alex shouted back in surprise.
"Of-course… I am his best friend and I am the only one who knows better about him than anyone else."
While Daniel and Alex were brimming with joy, Vertrex was smiling too at seeing the dark user's pain.
"How does it feel, being the one feeling the pain right now?" Vertrex said, still smiling.
"Curse… you!" the dark user shouted, still screaming in pain.
"Ah well… I think it's time you return to your own ball, I'm sure it's tired of waiting to take it's pray." Vertrex said "Also, let go of me. Magna Force!"
The dark user was suddenly flung away from Vertrex and landed on the death ball. The dark user suddenly screamed even more loudly than before as he felt the pain on his back by touching his own attack.
"Now's own chance guys" Vertrex shouted over the howling wind "PUSH!"
Hearing Vertrex's call, Daniel and Alex started to use even more power against the ball and felt a force stopping them. They realised it must be the force Vertrex was applying on the dark user, from stopping him from making any sudden movements to try and escape from his fate.
The dark user suddenly started to scream louder, his eyes balls seem to want to pop out, his mouth was wide open and he kept on screaming and screaming.
"Oh shut up already!" Vertrex shouted.
Pointing his free hand, left hand, at the dark user, he shouted "Light Shine Attack!"
A beam soared straight away from Vertrex's hand to the dark user's chest. For a few seconds the dark user screamed even more before a huge explosion took place where the death ball and the dark user had been. The explosion was so strong that it blew Daniel and Alex from where they were standing but luckily, Sophia and Kayla caught them.
When the dust finally cleared, neither the dark user, nor the death ball, were anywhere to be seen. It is apparent that the explosion was from the death ball and it also appears it had taken the life of its caster thanks to Vertrex forcedly making the dark user smash into his own attack.
"We finally got rid of that loud mouth!" Alex cheered as he stretched as they sat where the dust was still swirling, slowly receding to wherever the wind is blowing towards.
"Yes. Well done" Sophia said smiling.
"You were great Daniel." Kayla said fondly, laying her head in Daniel's chest.
"Not really." Daniel said but was also smiling "If Vertrex didn't choose the time that he had come, then perhaps we wouldn't be sitting here and chatting with you."
"Don't say that!" Kayla said sharply, clapping her hand over his mouth.
"Yes" Sophia agreed "You shouldn't look at or think negatives but positives."
"Guess you're right." Daniel sighed. Then he remembered something "Where Vertrex?"
"I thought he was with you guys." Kayla said, placing her hands on Daniel's hands.
"Don't tell me-" Alex began but Sophia cut him off.
"I just said don't think negative." Sophia said but her expression was a worried one.
"It was just a thought but maybe … maybe he got blown away, like us." Alex suggested.
"That would make sense." Daniel said reassuringly but he too looked worried. "That was no ordinary explosion."
"Ordinary?" Alex said laughing, "I'm sure glad that we weren't in that dark user's position at the time of the explosion."
They started to laugh when suddenly Sophia exclaimed "There's someone standing being that dust."
"That'll be Vertrex, trying to make a grand entry." Daniel said, still laughing.
Once the dust cleared, their expressions changed from happiness to shock.
"No way!" Alex shouted in shock and quickly got to his feet but too late-
"Dark Blast"
Alex, Daniel, Kayla and Sophia were all blasted away by this sudden attack, landing a few meters away on their backs, hard.
"Gah!" Daniel moaned sharply in pain as he felt his ribs which seemed to have been strained in the fall.
"Daniel, are you ok?" Kayla shouted, bending over him while Alex and Sophia stood, staring at the dark figure of the person that they had thought had killed.
The dark user stood, like a zombie, not looking them, nor looking anywhere except at the ground. Alex didn't know if it was his imagination or that the dark user seemed to be different than before the explosion.
Alex prepared to fight him but suddenly he realised he didn't have any energy left in him to fight anymore. Sophia must've sensed his problem because she suddenly said quietly so that the dark user wouldn't hear what she's about to say.
"You take rest Alex" Sophia said. "I'll fight this mean looking dude."
Alex looked at her as if she's gone crazy but Sophia, sensing this, spoke again.
"I know what you're thinking Alex" Sophia said, smiling slightly and Alex nodded. "I did think about that but what choice do I have." To which Alex said nothing. "I'll distract him while you and Daniel recover your energy and then you can take over. Ok." Alex didn't look happy but knowing it was the only option left, he nodded.
While Alex bended over Daniel, Sophia quickly moved forward in attacking position, ready to strike and defend at the slightest movement from the dark user. Suddenly, in a quick movement, the dark user brought both of his hands and pointed them at Sophia who struggled to keep up with what he was trying to do.
The dark user started to gather energy in both of his hands and Sophia thought she should defend seeing as she isn't close enough to land an attack on him. The wind started to blow towards the point where the dark user seemed to be charging some kind of an attack that he was going to unleash at them and Sophia didn't like the look of it.
In desperation, Sophia shouted "Earth Shield" and rocks started to together to form a protective barrier around her and her companions behind her. Then, over the loud howling of the wind, she heard the dark user's lour clear voice.
The dark user said "This is the end for you mortals." then he shouted "Dark Vortex"
Sophia suddenly felt fear beyond imagination. She knew exactly what that attack can do and realised the shield that she had placed around them won't be enough but knew that no matter what she does, the attack will get them in the end.
"It's dark vortex!" Sophia thought desperately "There is no one who had lived after being hit by this attack. This attack was supposed to send you to some dimension where you will die a painful death."
These thoughts didn't help her but she still gave more force to her protective barriers.
"I'm sorry guys" Sophia muttered, tears spilling from her eyes "I'm so sorry that I couldn't protect you."
Just when the attack was about to hit her, she heard another familiar voice and her heart leaped. Vertrex!
"Sonic Fire Ball" Vertrex roared.
Sophia looked up from behind her defensive wall just in time to see a jet of fiery stream of jet whoosh away from Vertrex's hand towards the oncoming jet of darkness. As the two beams collided, a great explosion took place. A strong wish gushed over Sophia face as she held onto her protective wall desperately to not get blown away but even her walls weren't holding strong as some parts of the wall have crumbled due to the massive force of the wind from the explosion.
Once the dust cleared for most parts, a giant crater was seen on the spot where the two beams had collided moments ago. Vertex was facing the dark user, a couple of meters split them from each other.
"Sophia" Vertrex said, not turning to look at her "Keep your protective wall up. The fight that's going to happen will be huge."
Sophia began, wondering what to say but Vertex turned around and smiled at her "Trust me. I'll beat the life out of that scumbag." And with that Vertrex leaped away towards the dark user.
Sophia watched him go, feeling useless but realised she couldn't do any better than to get in his way so she started to construct more protective walls around them like Vertrex had suggested.
"Be careful Vertrex"
Chapter 10
Part 3
Vertrex landed only meters away from the dark user. The dark user stood still and silent as Vertrex made his way but now looked up and smiled at him, it looked more like a sneer but Vertrex returned the smile.
"So" the dark user said matter-of-factly "you still have energy after that much of excitement?"
"Come now." Vertrex said indignantly "Did you actually think it's over that easily?"
"You said the same thing that I was about to say." The dark user said, now looked angry. "No. I didn't think it was over. I knew from the start that you were the only one among them that had the strength to defeat me."
"Well luckily for you I got knocked out when they needed me the most." Vertrex said, a little annoyed at him
"You might've gotten knocked out but they put up a good fight but what good will it do without their ultimate weapon?" The dark said and laughed.
"I suppose you have a point there." Vertrex said, nodding his head in agreement. "Anyway I need to ask you something."
The dark user looked stricken for a moment then recovered. "You want to ask me something." He repeated as if he can't believe what he just heard.
"Yes" Vertrex said, looking at the dark user closely.
"What is it that you want to know?" the dark user asked, a little confused but at the same time curious to know what the boy is planning.
"Do you know who Fusion Master is?" Vertrex said.
Now the dark user jumped back a few steps in shock. This wasn't a question he had expected and he didn't know how the boy had come to know of this unless…
"Are you his descendent?" The dark user asked nervously.
"I don't know him for starters and secondly I am only interested in knowing a few things about him." Vertrex said, folding his hands.
"Oh" the dark user said shortly. "I guess it won't hurt to enlighten you on the master."
""Master"?" Vertex repeated. "What do you mean?"
"Right" the dark user said, nodding wisely "It was told that he was the creator of light and dark and all other elements."
"I see. Does he have descendants?" Vertrex asked.
"I doubt it seeing as we were searching for them ourselves." The dark user said, looking at the boy curiously.
"Oh ok." Vertrex said "Well thanks for telling. Now do you want to fight?"
"For asking me those questions, I really want to punch the life out of you." The dark user said, taking his fighting stance.
"You said the same thing I was about to say meaning we're even!" Vertrex shouted and launched himself high into the air. Then he pointed the his hands at the dark user and yelled "Light Barrage"
Vertrex started to fire jets of beams at the dark user at a very fast rate but the dark user jumped high and reached the same left as Vertrex, aimed his hands at him and shouted "Dark Barrage"
"Holy crap!" Vertrex yelled in shock as beams of dark balls kept coming at him. To avoid them, Vertrex shouted "Light Flash"
Vertrex re-appeared right behind the dark user, drew his right fist back and yelled "Fist of Eons" and launched at the dark user but when he was about to strike the dark user's back, his attack hit a barrier that surrounded the dark user.
The dark user laughed heartedly. "Did you think it was that easy?" he taunted still laughing and turned around to face Vertrex. "Never!" he roared and Vertrex was buffeted backwards by the sheer force of those words.
Vertrex haunted in mid-air, thinking fast on what to do next when suddenly the dark user pointed his hands at Vertrex and shouted "Dark Cannon"
A high power blast of darkness was blasted at Vertrex and Vertrex reacted instantly by bringing his hands together to form the shape of cannon, aimed it at the incoming beam and shouted "Supreme Cannon"
From within his hands, Vertrex fired a blast of light at the oncoming attack. When the two collided a huge explosion took place which Vertrex used as a diversion to mutter "Light Flash" to that the dark user wouldn't know he was trying to get closer to him.
Vertrex re-appeared but suddenly realised the dark user wasn't anywhere to be found. Vertrex thought the dark user must've gone where he was previously when suddenly he heard the dark user shout "Celestial Darkness"
Whirling around, Vertrex saw, just in time, the dark user, pointing his hands at him when the attack reached him. Suddenly Vertrex started to scream in pain as he yet again felt the searing pain of the thousands of lightning jolts jabbing at every part of his body.
After an intense seconds of searing pain, the attack stopped and all was clear but the pain still remained. Vertrex remained in his position, occasionally feeling the pain of the aftermath of the attack.
"How does it feel?" The dark user laughed as he eyed Vertrex's feeble body. "I have to admit, the pain you felt was nothing compared to the pain I felt previously when you used that attack … what was it again?"
Vertrex slowly raised himself to face the dark user and in quick movement, movement the dark user couldn't catch, Vertrex had soared towards the dark user and grabbed his face and yelled "This is the attack you fool! Heavens Shock burst!"
This time it was the dark user's time to feel more pain that the pain Vertrex had experienced. The dark user screamed and screamed as he felt every part of his body shattering with millions of lightning bolts. Then the attack was over but the dark user was still feeling the pain of the attack.
"Damn" he muttered "can't … move…!"
"Of-course!" Vertrex shouted.
Vertrex moved over the dark user's paralysed body, bringing his right fist backwards; he yelled "Fist of Eons" and unleashed it on the dark user's head.
The dark user yelled in pain as he felt his head throb painfully and fell to the ground until he finally crash landed.
Vertrex eyed the form of the dark user for a few seconds then suddenly his eyes flashed and he yelled "Let's finish this!"
Vertrex brought both of his hands upwards and started to gather energy above his head. The dark user was still paralysed from the impact of the shocking attack, the punch on his head and the crash landing but he could see Vertrex was gathering a massive amount of energy over his head and tried to move but couldn't.
After a few seconds of suspense, with the wind getting stronger with momentum, Vertrex finally finished gathering energy. The energy now formed into a giant ball which he's now holding with the support of his hands.
"It has been good fighting you but it has to come to an end and this is the way to pay for your sins!" Vertrex roared and preparing to throw the ball at the dark user who was still unmoving but staring at the ball with horror in his face, Vertrex yelled "Solar Wind Destroyer" and threw it at the dark user.
The ball soared straight towards the dark user who still hasn't moved but simply stared at the oncoming attack with fear and horror on his face. The ball finally landed and the dark user's scream of anguish was heard for a few seconds before the ball completely surrounded him and soon a giant explosion took place.
Vertrex touched the hard ground with both of his feet, still staring at the spot where the dark user and his attack had been before the explosion. Once the dust cleared, there was no sight of the dark user or his attack. Vertrex thought for a second that the dark user survived but he knew that the fight was finally over.
[END OF CHAPTER 10]