Shiraga: chapter 12 is here. i wrote this one when my computer just love to going numb every 5 minutes, so yeah, clunkiness all over the place
Chapter 12: The rescue
"Protect all the priestesses at all cost, even if you have to cost your life for that."
"And that is what the red eyes freak said."—Add repeated the mission that Luto had declared, then he pointed his thumb behind him. "And since our 9th Sky Division is the only unit that possessed transportations capable of executing emergency escape, the priestesses will be staying with us until further announce."—the priestesses then started to introduce themselves, except for Ignia as they all have already know about her. "I'm Darkmoon, the Dark priestess, it a pleasure to meet you all." / "I'm Gloria, the Light priestess." / "I'm Anudran, the Wind priestess." /"And I'm Sasha, the Water priestess. Long time no see, Sir Chung Seiker."—Sasha, the water priestess introduced herself then bowed to Chung. "Ah yes, long time no see Sasha."—Chung then returned with a bow, then he explained to the others how he met Sasha. "Every generation of the Seiker family have to train to master the Guardian Stone. The training always takes place at the Temple of Trials. And Sasha was my guide."—the friendly meeting with the priestesses just goes on and on, and it only finished after the dinner.
The later morning, Elesis approached Ignia while she was having breakfast. "You need something Elesis?"—Ignia asked with her folk in her mouth. "I have a request: teach me how to use the power of the Fire El. Even though I'm Rosso Chosen One, but with my current strength, I cannot use this power at it full potential like general Add or Rena. So please, teach me how to use it."—Ignia then returned with a smile. Then the 2 proceeded to the training area."First, show me how you use your fire."—Ignia said while pointing her spear at Elesis, then the 2 started a small sparring match. Ignia observed the way how Elesis uses her fire closely. Then she signaled Elesis to stop. "Your skill of fire magic is good. But in order to reach the Fire El full potential, look like you will have to throw everything that you had learned away."—Elesis eyes widened, then Ignia continue to explain. "They way how you, no, how everyone in the 'Guardian', their fire is merely a copy, that is why they are not perfect. In other word, their fire is a 'dead' fire. Rosso true flame is "living" fire, his fire have a will of their own, like a living entity."—Ignia stopped for a while, then continue. "But in your fire, I can sense it, even though it weak, but your fire is a 'living' fire. So from today, I'll teach you on how to make your fire become a completely living entity."—then from that day, Elesis started to train under Ignia guide. 3 days later, another emergency meeting was held.
"We received reports that demons are attacking many important places: Port Lurensia, Altera Core and other facilities. If they take control over Altera Core, the nasod will turn against us and losing Port Lurensia meaning our naval unit will be completely immobilize. The nasod and Velder Guard are struggling to drive off the demons, their numbers are massive, so they requested help from the 'Guardian'. If we lose those places, the demons will come to us in no time."
After Luto dismissed the meeting, all units then started to depart to reinforce for Velder and Altera, except for the 9th Sky Division will be staying at the base, as they are in charge of protecting the priestesses. After all the units have left, only the 9th Sky Division was left at the base. "Argh! This is so boring! I want to fight not staying here to babysit the priestesses!"—Elsword complained while lying on the floor of the mother ship. Elesis and Ignia returned to their training. "Remember Elesis, forming the fire into the image that brings you many good memories."—Ignia yelled while sparring with Elesis. "Easier to said then done!"—Elesis replied while clashing her claymore with Ignia spear. "Think…the image that brings me many good memories…when Miss Vanessa complied me…when I got the trophies back at the Elympic…Argh! This is not leading anywhere!"—Elesis suddenly stopped, her fire started to fade. "I just can't think of anything! Too many good memories but none of them have a specific image."—Ignia sighed. "You need to calm down first, the more you confuse, the harder it gets to remember those memories. This is it for today. We will try again tomorrow."—Elesis went to wash her face, then she went on to check the others. Aisha and Ara were patrolling around the HQ. Chung, Eve and Apple were maintaining their ships. Raven was taking a nap and Rena was practicing her skill. Elsword was still lying and complaining about boredom on the floor. Only Add is left. "General?"—Elesis poked her head into Add room and saw he was being buried under many piles of papers.
"What is it Elesis?"—Add asked while writing something down on the papers, his dynamos were also helping by sorting the papers. "Just what are these things?"—Elesis asked while staring at the mountain of papers. "Lime and the Forest Ranger have to take part in the reinforcement for Velder and Altera, so she pushed all of her paper work on me. That lazy ass, I'm gonna make her pay when she get back."—Add gritted his teeth and mistakenly crushed the pen in his hand. Elesis then quietly leave the room and went back to her room. The fell down to her bed with her face down on the pillow. "What should I do…I just cannot imagine the fire into a specific image…"—then her eyes stopped on a picture on the table next to her bed. The picture showed herself, Rena and Elsword standing together under a cherry blossom tree, it was taken on the day when they first go to Velder military school. After staring at the picture for a while, Elesis eyes then widened. She immediately got up and rushed out of her room, back to the training ground. She held her claymore in front of her then closed her eye.
"It was that cherry blossom tree, it was the root of all the good memories I had."—Elesis concentrated, her fire started to surrounding her. Her claymore started a glow, then she swung her claymore upward, the flame aura around her then exploded into many blazing flower petals. Then Ignia returned to the training ground just in time to see the sight: even though there was no wind blowing, the fire petals were dancing in the air. She then ran toward and hugged Elesis. "Elesis, you did it!" "So it really was that cherry blossom tree huh?"—Elesis said to herself while staring at the dancing fire petals. But the celebrating didn't last long as the alarm went off.
"Warning! Enemies detected! Warning! Enemies detected!"
"Finally! I can get rid of these papers!"—every stopped what they were doing immediately while Add flipped his table with along with all the paper work that Lime pushed on him, and rushed out of his room.
"Sir, we are surrounded! Their numbers have greatly increased since the last encounter!"—Allergo reported back to Luto in the main deck. "What? So their attacks on Altera and Velder were just a diversion? They planned to divide our army so they can easily attack this base from the first place?"—Luto asked back while looking at the monitor. "So they intended to attack those essential places to scatter our army and attack this base. Even if their attack on here fail, they still have control over our important facilities. What a bunch of clever scumbags."—Glave said while still playing with his cubes, then he ordered to activate the 'Guardian' HQ defense system. Then from the underground, many platforms started to elevate to the surface. Standing on those platforms were many colossal silver armor with many blue glowing lines along their armor—the Guardian Knight. The giant armors then began to engage in combat with the demons army. With the superhuman strength, every of their hammer swing can make the ground tremble. When the Cutty Sark started to rush into battle to attack from the air, they immediately got wiped out by the Guardian Magician.
"Those things look so cool! Yush, I will fight too!"—Elsword was about to jump down to join the fight, but was stopped by Add. "No knucklehead, our mission is to protect the priestesses, not engage in combat. Be prepare, we will execute the emergency escape if need."—the redhead pouted and was forced to sit back down. Then another portal open, but this one was far bigger than the others. Then stepped out of it is not a demon, but a gigantic mechanical figure. The mechanical figure swung it cannon toward the Guardian Knights and with only 1 hit, wipe out 3 of them. Then it headed the small cannon on it back upward a release a barrage of energy bullets, which quickly get rid of the Guardian Magician. Add eyes widened after seeing the mechanical figure. "Nasod…Inspector…"—he whispered the name as the memories of his father works flowed back into his mind.
"General, the demons have break through the defense line."—Chung shouted into the communicate device. "Tch! I'll save these thoughts for later. "Chung, Eve, Apple, Aisha, get back to the ship and start the engine. Raven, Ara, Elsword, Elesis, Rena, get rid of those that dare to come inside."—Add then jumped down from the observation deck and joined the fight.
"Quicksilver Accel!" / " Rising Slash!" / "Bloody Accel!"
"Freezing Arrow!" / "Energy Void!"
"Chung, how is the engine going?"—Add asked while stopping the demons form getting near the mother ship. "It ready!"—Chung replied. Add then ordered the others to return to the ship, then rushed toward a level to open the ceiling. The ships then took off, leaving the 'Guardian' HQ and the demons behind. "Will the others be okay?"—Ara asked through the communicate device. "A bunch of demons versus 2 Time and Space controllers? Yeah, those demons sure will get their asses beaten." "So, where is the destination general?"—Chung asked while piloting the ship. "A place that they may least expected. City in the Sky, my old home."
After a while of flying, the 9th Sky Division had reached a floating city. It was mostly white, with many tall pointy building. They landed their ships and started to investigate the surrounding. "Mother, father, everyone, I'm home."-Add said to himself while touching a big stone pillar that seemed to be a grave stone, with the names of all the dead people written on it. Everyone then returned after a while of investigation. No sign of demons around. "Or is it."—Add turned around to see Joaquin was standing there. He was about to rushed at the demon, then Joaquin threw a bottle at them, creating a screen of smoke. The smoke cause everyone to paralyze. 4 then demons then appeared behind him, they were holding unconscious Darkmoon and Ignia. Add then ordered his dynamos to protect Rena as they weren't affected by the smoke. "Actually, I don't need that girl anymore. I already had a better body cell for the Nature priest resurrection."—joaquin flicked his fingers, a big glass capsule then appeared behind him, inside containing a body that made both Add and Raven eyes to widen. "S…Seris…?" "Her body had many similarities to that elf over there, to the point that they both almost look identical."—then another voice from another figure appeared from behind Joaquin, and the owner of the voice was someone that nobody expected. "Luto?"—every single eye widened as they saw the leader of the 'Guardian', is with the demon.
"Surprise isn't it? I had played my role well as the leader of the 'Guardian', but it just my cover. My true identity is one of the 3 Creators of the 'Knowledge Hunter', The Lord of Time and Space, Luto. You all have served me well, as a return, I'll spare your life. Now if you excuse me, I still have something to take care of."—then he disappeared into his portal along with the others. The effect of the smoke finally faded.
"Psychic Storm!"—Add released a storm of electricity in a moment of anger. Then something popped up from Chung hologram screen. The screen showing that the 'Guardian' had became the demons new base in Elrios. The other units that had return were trying to take back the base. "What do we do now general?"—Chung asked. "Protecting the priestesses was our mission, and we were failed to do so. So now we are going to rescue them."—the others chuckled. "I knew that you would say that. But what about our weapon?"—Add then signaled the group to follow him, to a stairs that leaded further inside the floating city. Then they stopped in front of a big door. "Those demons only care about the knowledge that this village hold, they didn't even mind checking the city. Kek, clever and stupid at the same time."—Add said while inputting the passcode on the panel. Then the door opened.
"This city contained not only knowledge, but also the things that were born from those knowledge."—the place was a weapon storage. It contained many vehicle and weapon that looked like those of the 'Guardian', but only bigger and much more powerful.
"Chung, Eve, list every weapon that we can use and take them back to the ships. If we are going on a rescue mission, we are doing it in style."—Add ordered, Chung and Eve immediately started on making the list, while the others climbed into the armor suits and started on moving them back to the ships. Add signaled Apple to follow him to the end of the room. "I had something that you might want to see."—Add turned on the light and a steel capsule appeared in front of the 2. It slowly open and inside was a girl that greatly resembled Apple and Eve, wearing a white and pink battle suit, with 2 drone floating beside her, on her back was 2 wings. The girl descended on the ground and opened her eyes.
"System, all green…Updating data, complete…"—after the mechanical sound ended, a tiara and 2 bracelets made from plasma appeared on her forehead and around her wrist. She then looked to Add and bowed. "Long time no see, Master Add."—the girl greeted. "Yes, long time indeed, Q-Proto 00."—Apple was staring at the girl that looked exactly like her, the only different was their clothes, eyes color and the shape of the drone. "My father created her to protect the village. She used to be my play mate when I was still little. But when doing the final adjustment with her weapon, he was killed by those demons. My mother quickly hid her away to prevent the demons from using her for their evil deed."
-Guardian Headquarter—
"Come on! Fight harder! We must take back this base or else it would be the end for Elrios!"—Helputt shouted while using his cannon to pushed back the demons. All the other units were trying to take back the base, but now the demons have used their main force, it was truly no easy task. Another wave of Uno Hound and Victor appeared and wiped out many soldiers. Lime tripped and fell down. "Lime!"—The Uno hound slammed his fists down on the elf, she embraced herself for the incoming attack, but the Uno Hound was immediately got vaporized by a massive energy beam. Then barrages after barrages of missiles were sent toward the demons. Lime still hadn't understood what was going on, then a familiar voice caught her attention.
"First is the paper work, now is saving your live, that made you own me twice."—Add said after stepping out from his portal. "Apple, how is the 'Sky Goddess' doing?"—Add asked through his communicate device. "It working wonder, all systems are at their maximum output rate."-Apple replied while piloting the satellite that is the source of the massive enrgy beam. "Good. Lime, fall back. New weapons should be here any minute. Tell the other to use those things to take back the base."—Add ordered Lime, then changed the communicate frequency on his communicate device to contact the other leaders. He explained everything from Luto being the 'Knowledge hunter' leader to how they have all the needed material to resurrect the Ancient Wyvern. "My weapons will be here any minute, leave the demons for the others, we must get in that portal to stop them from achieving their goal."—and just in time, the 9th Sky Division landed, carrying new weapons that they got from the City in the Sky. His group and other leaders then rushed toward the portal.
"I know that you all wanted to land some punch on Luto, me too. But first thing first, we have to rescue the priestesses so they won't be able to resurrect the Ancient Wyvern."—Add said then the group jumped into the portal. They landed on the ground several seconds later. Still the same old scenery: black surface with red glowing line of lava on them. But no time for sight seeing, the group then rushed toward the place that is seemed to be the demons base. Another army of demons then al so rushed toward them.
"Dang it! Did these thing produce by cloning or something?"—Elsword said after seeing the hoard of demons. The group tried to break through the demons defense. "Land Demolisher—Earthquake!" / "Blizzard Shower!"—Helputt slammed his cannon to the ground and shot a series of cannon ball, creating multiple explosions while Noah summoned many ice shards that rained down on the demons and opened a path. "Go on and get the priestesses, we will hold them back."—Add nodded then leaded the group to continue on their mission. The army on the outside already had a massive numbers, and there is still more inside. Then a figure clad in black armor jumped down from a high platform. Edan stopped the figure claw with his sword. "You…you are that thing that attacked the Elf village 2 years ago!"—Raven shouted when seeing the familiar shape of the figure. "Yes, but I think both of you knew me by the name Valak."—Add and Raven eyes widened after hearing the name that they have been searching nonstop. "Commander Valak?"—Edan then signaled the others to go on. "I had something to talk with this guy. But the priestesses not gonna wait for this."
"I also had something to talk with you, but we have some priestesses to rescue so this talk will have to wait."—Add said then get back to running to find the priestesses. Then the group reached a big open space. Inside was a big altar, with a drawing of a 6 wings star on the ground, at the tip of 2 wing were the Dark and Fire priestess, while the other were the Light, Water and Wind El. The wing in the middle was the floating corpse of Seris, which will be used as the sacrifice to resurrect the Nature priestesses.
"I knew that you will come. So I had prepared something to welcome you."—Wally said then flicked his finger, then from behind the altar, a big door opened and a giant dragon which body is only bones, another green smaller figure with a great sword in it hand and a lot of demons stepped out from it. While the demons were keeping the group busy, Wally went back to casting the spell from the scroll. When he finished his line, 6 pillars of light appeared from the spots of the tip of the 6 wings star
"Hahahahaha! At long last, we have achieved our go—"—but before he could finish his sentence, Add appeared from behind him from his portal and landed a punch on his face, sending him flying. Add then ordered his dynamos to take the Els while he rescuing the priestesses and Seris. The altar then started to tremble greatly. "General, we must get out of here!"—Raven shouted, Add then immediately returned to his portal, then they all run for their life out of the demons base. When they have escaped the demons base, Add opened another portal to return to Elrios.
Back at the 'Guardian' HQ, using the new weapons that the 9th Sky Division brought back from the City in the Sky, they have managed to take back their base. The nurses were tending the injured wounds while the others soldiers were checking the base status. Then Add portal opened and the rescue team returned with the priestesses and the Els. The rescue team then collapsed to the ground. "Man, if I fall asleep now, I think I never want to wake up."—Elesis said while lying on the ground. "At least we managed to save the priestesses and bring back the Els."—Rena said while catching her breath. "But they have already achieved their goal. When I looked back before entering the portal, I saw 3 giant heads emerged from the ground. That mean the Ancient Wyvern had been resurrected."—Noah said under her breath while trying to take off her heavy armor. "Then we still have one final battle. But let just call it a day."—Add said while lying on his dynamos after he had sent the priestesses to the medical room, as he hate getting his clothes dirty.
When the nurses have completed in tending everyone wounds, they still have one final challenge: clean up the HQ, as the battles have caused some serious messy state to the base: Guardian Knight armor, demons corpses and other unidentifiable stuff were all around the 'Guardian' HQ, so they will have to clean it up. When the cleaning had done, some managed to drag their worn out body back to their bed, while the other fell asleep right at the spot that they just cleaned. Elsword and Elesis lying on any random spot on the floor that they found comfortable, Aisha used her staff as a pillow for her head, Rena summoned a bed made off woods for her and Raven, Chung sat on the ground while leaning his back against his cannon, Eve, Apple and Q-Proto 00 are nosod so they didn't need to sleep, so they went around the base to put blanket on everyone so they won't catch a cold when wake up, Add leaned against the wall, using his coat as a blanket with Ara head leaned on his shoulder. That night, the sound of snoring echoed the whole 'Guardian' HQ, as they all were exhausted from the consecutive battles.
Shiraga: chapter 13 spoiler
Add, Raven and Seris reunion
first stage of the big battle
but chapter 13 will have to wait, next one will be 12.5 for the valentine special, so later folks. Now i have to call my uncle to fix this baby.