Shiraga: chapter 14 is here. a little bit short :p, but dont worry, i saved up all the good stuff for the next chapter.
Enjoy folks
Chapter 14: Second Phase—the Ancient Wyvern
"Iron Howling!"—Helputt released a deafening war cry, knocking the demons away. The battle on the outside was nearly coming to an end with the 'Guardian' having the upper hand. Then a small earthquake caused the Colossal to turn around. "All of you better get out alive."
-4th path—
"Look like they almost done with resurrecting the Wyvern back to it prime. We must hurry."—Add said after the earth quake ended, and moved on along with Edan. But strangely, they haven't encountered even a single demon on their way, even thought Add dynamos detected a high demonic energy source from this path. Then they reached a big room. The wall was filled with claw marks, while the on the ground, demons bodies. Some have the same claw marks on them, while the others were completely ripped limb from limb.
"So you come at last."—a figure clad in black armor stood in the middle of the hoard of demon corpse, his left hand was holding a demon head. "I was a bit boring, so I played with these things while waiting."—Add looked around then smirked. "Should I be thanking you for clearing the path and save us a lot of time for this?"—the smirk on his face then disappeared as he crackled his knuckles. "Enough chit chat, let get down to business. I have a lot of questions for you, if you don't answer them I'll have no choice but to beat some sense into you." Valak returned Add with a big laugh. "How about I answer all your questions then we both go full power?" "Sound fine by me."—Add grinned back. "First, how did you survive 2 years ago?"—Add asked the question that had been haunting his mind since Valak disappearance.
"When I fell down from the cave, I woke up moment later in a critical state with all those wounds. I thought that it for me and closed my eyes again. But the Spriggan armor nearby slowly taken over my body. It felt great! More powerful than ever as it power flowed into my body! Why must I waste my time for those useless noble families just to obtain those stupid titles? Why must I feel these pains for them to live? I accepted Spriggan power, and now they shall experience the pain that I have been through!"
Add, after hearing Valak words just sighed. "Pathetic…"—when he was about to rush in an give him a punch, Edan stopped him. "You done with your questions right? Now go ahead and stop the resurrection, I still have something to do with him."—after a while of hesitation, Add ordered his dynamos to return to default state, and blasted the corpses of demons out of the way.
"So we meet again my old friend."—Valak said after Add disappeared into the exit. "2 years is a long time. Now that you are here now, let this match decide the result of our battles. Your 99 wins and mine 99 wins."—Edan said then the 2 of them rushed toward each other, Edan with his usual sadist smile and Valak with his big grin.
Add started to hear weapon clashing sound. He turned back then continued. "You 2 better not destroying this whole place."—on his way forward, demons started to crawl out from the other entrances. "I lost my mood in dealing with these things. Drabaki."—the Dark Watcher then gladly jumped down from Add shoulder, increased it size a bit and started to cause havoc. After 5 minutes, the demons completely got wiped out. Drabaki turned back to it small size and returned by Add shoulder. Suddenly, a smoke screen surrounded Add.
"Just like I promised, now I'll welcome you properly."—when he heard Joaquin voice, Add ordered his dynamos to clear the smoke screen away. When the smoke had died down, the surrounding had completely changed. Not the demon base at their realm, but the Velder Military school was right in front of his eyes. "An old school visit? How generous."—Add smirked then moved into the school. While moving, he also sent his dynamos to scout the surrounding. "Even though it just illusion, these things still feel very…real."—he thought to himself while running his through a table surface.
Then his dynamos returned. No sign of Joaquin in the school area. "Guess that leave one place left to search."—Add then headed to the dormitory. He walked pass the gate, then the cafeteria while looking around as old memories flowed back into his mind. Finally he reached the student rooms area. But something was different. He saw Raven room, but right next to it which was supposed to be his room, the name board on the door was 'Chung'. And next to it were Elesis, then Rena, Elsword, Aisha, Eve, Ara, Noah, Lime and Amelia. Add then lost his balance as the space started to distort. He fell down and used his dynamos to cushion his fall. The surrounding then turned back into the demon base.
After regaining the balance, Add looked up and saw Joaquin was floating in midair with 2 orbs floating beside him. "Letting you visit your old school before your doom, you should be grateful."—Joaquin mocked. "Now I have a question for you."—Joaquin said then threw a bottle at Add. His surrounding changed again, and his uniform turned into a noble royal costume. "The prince leads a troop to slay the dragon. He finally reached the dragon lair. But the dragon still has some tricks up it sleeves. It captured the prince troop, his royal underling and are also his best friends."—Joaquin said then pointed to the orb on his right. The orb then turned translucent, revealing Add team inside. "But wait, the dragon was even trickier. It also captured the one that the prince loves, the princess."—the orb on his left then revealed Ara being trapped inside. They all were being unconscious.
"Now the lonely prince, with no comrade left will facing a tough choice. Will he save his friends or the princess?"—Joaquin said then laughed uncontrollably. Add hand then balled his hand into a fist, purple electricity started to form around his knuckle. "So what will your answer be little prince?"—after done laughing, Joaquin looked down, but Add no longer there. "How about I save them both?"—the demon heard Add voice, but the owner of the voice was nowhere in sight. Then Joaquin felt something on his face, a burning and painful sensation. A few teeth blew out of his mouth. Add landed a punch on Joaquin face, knocking him aside. Because of that, the orbs lost control and dropped everyone inside. Add caught Ara while his dynamos caught the others.
Joaquin, now full of anger, stood up then took out 3 small potions. "You will pay for this boy. Witness my ultimate illusion!"—he said the slammed the potions on the ground. The surrounding then changed again, it was Velder, but the burning Velder during the Great war. "My glorious invention, Velder Hallucination. Let see how you deal with this boy!"—Add placed Ara and ordered his dynamos to place the others down. He putted his coat on Ara, took off his eyepatch then rushed right into Joaquin illusion. "I have killed many with this hallucination, but you are the first one to rush right into it boy! Very well, I'll let you have slow and painful death!"—Add then opened a giant crack in space. The crack continued to grow and finally, it completely swallowed Joaquin and his illusion. Joaquin looked around, but different from last time when he was inside Add space. Instead of excitement, this time his expression was a frightening one.
"Your illusion is strong indeed, but illusion will always be illusion."—Add appeared with his dynamos and 2 modules floating around him, his sclera now have turned black. "Normally, I can only erase your existence from history. But in here, my Time-Space Corridor, I can erase your existence in every dimension and timeline."—Add said as he opened millions of space crack, showing the Joaquin in other dimension as his dynamos started to charged up energy.
"Oblivion Space."
Add said the word, then his dynamos and modules started to released millions of energy beam into the cracks. The Joaquin in the crack that got hit by the beam, disappeared. Add then concentrated all the remained traces showing that Joaquin used to exist in the other dimension into a purple sphere in his palm. "Beautiful isn't it?"—Add asked while staring at the purple glowing sphere. "Erasing only your existence is still not enough. I'll erase even the sign, the trace of your existence."—Joaquin rushed toward Add, but before he could lay a finger on him, an energy beam hit Joaquin and erased him from existence while Add crushed the sphere in his palm. Now, the name 'Joaquin' along with everything that related to that name, record, title, belonging, even the memories of those around that name, got erased completely from existence. Like they have never existed in the first place.
The dark space then cracked up and broken into millions of glowing purple pieces. Add still floating in midair, he lifted his head up as some tears slid down his cheek.
"Mother, father, everyone, you can finally rest in peace now…"
He returned to the ground then checked the others. Raven, Chung, Aisha and Eve woke up first, then the rest. "Now do you mind explain to me who is the demon behind you?"—Add asked while pointing at Karis, who is still unconscious, but still clinging on Elsword. Aisha noticed the redhead face turned as red as his hair when seeing Karis 'things' pushed on his back. "Karis, she is the succubus queen. She joined us earlier just because the demon realm is too boring to her."—Aisha explained after ordering Angkor to deal with the redhead. "She currently stands no threat to us, so just let her stick around."—Add said then turned to Karis. "But I'll deal with you myself if you start to have any sign that can cause harm to team."—but Karis showed no fear, instead she flirt back with Add. "Ooh, I like the type of man like you~~~"—Ara jumped into the middle of the 2 blocking Karis away from Add. After a small argument, the group continued on their mission.
-Meanwhile, back at the 'Guardian' base camp—
Glave was standing in front of the monitor, still playing with his cubes. When Allergo stepped inside to report about the situation, a space crack opened and sucked Glave inside. "Allergo, I'll be gone for a while. You in charge here."—Glave said with his monotone, but Allergo thought that he just heard Glave chuckled a bit. When the crack had closed, Allergo snapped back to reality and started to panic. "In…in charge? What…what do you mean sir? What do I supposed to do?"
-Demon base—
"So we already got rid of 2 Creators, that mean there is only one left."—Add said as they moved along the path. Finally, they reached the biggest and deepest room in the demon base. They all looked up to the figure that was sitting on his throne, floating in midair. "Luto."
"Took you all long enough to get here."—Luto smirked from his throne. "But it is already too late. The Ancient Wyvern had awakened."—right when Luto finished his sentence, 3 heads with 2 wings sprouted from the ground behind him. The heads let out a deafening roar, loud enough to shake the whole room, even the intense battle outside can hear it.
"I'll use this one to destroy the 'Guardian' HQ first, then the rest of Elrios continent. So even though it bothersome, I'll just have to deal with all of you here."—Luto smirked then pointed his finger at the group. Many cracks exploded in space while moving forward them, but Add countered them just in time. "Paranoia!"
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot that you can also control Time-Space. No matter, I'll just have to use something stronger on you then."—Luto pointed his finger at the group again. Add gritted his teeth to embrace for the next attack. But nothing happened. "If that is the case then I'll be your opponent."—a space crack opened above the group, and stepped out from it was Glave. "Why are you here Glave? I trapped you in the deepest part of Henir with my spell!"—Luto confident voice turned panic. "It truly is the deepest part of Henir. But your spell is a child play to me. I only need to decode it a bit using the equation I got from him and what do you know? It lead me right to you."—Glave chuckled while pointing his thumb at Add.
"You took the equation out but you also messed with them, do you know how hard it is to fix the part that you messed?!"—Add shouted at Glave. "Let just say that I owed you that one, but now I just saved you AND you team, that make you owe me twice. Kukuku!"—Glave chuckled back. Then he opened a crack behind Luto that sucked him inside. "Now, if you excuse me, I'll deal with this guy. And one more thing, I save for you the big one, so now you owed me 3 times."—Glave said then disappeared into the crack with Luto.
"HOW THE HECK DOES LEAVING US TO DEAL WITH THIS THING MAKE ME OWE YOU? Tch, someday I'll rip off that mask from your face."—Add shouted, now full of anger. The wyvern then roared again and summoned 3 portals. More and more Darkness came out of the portals. "Tch, more annoying pest!"—Add was about to stand up, but Raven patted his shoulder. "Let us deal with them, just sit back and relax a bit."—then along with Elesis, they both stood up and moved forward. "I'll take the right, you got the left." "Got it Commander."
"This going to be a very hot show."
Raven and Elesis said in union as they both rushed toward the hoard of Darkness.
"Black Crow Reborn!"
Raven, with his flawless swordmanship, each of his slashes sliced through space and darkness. When he at the climax, he slammed both his nasod arm coated with fire and his sword to the ground, creating a big fire explosion. The places where his sword sliced caught the fire and released multiple blazing crows, which immediately incinerated the enemies. "The black crow can never be like the legendary phoenix, but we will always rise no matter how many times you try to destroy us."
"Crimson Flower!"
Elesis created a giant rune on the ground and called forth a giant aura sword, then slammed it right in the middle of the rune. But this time, the rune that she used was different. Some runes on the rune circle were replaced with fire rune. So the aura sword instead of creating a giant explosion, became millions of blazing cherry blossom petal. One petal landed on a Darkness, the petal immediately cut it in half and also turned it body into ash. "Wanna dance with my flames?"—Elesis said with a smile, as she began to control the petals to deal with the Darkness, while she cut down any of them that dared to come close. At that time, she was literally dancing a blazing dance.
All of the Darkness quickly turned into vain before the great fire attack of the 2. Those that didn't get hit directly still have no escape as the flame quickly spread and burned everything on it track, even the portals that the Ancient Wyvern summoned. "So, what do you think?"—Raven asked when he returned with Elesis. "Anyone have water?"—was the only line that everyone said, except Eve, when they returned. Add and Ara remained normal as he had used the cooling system on his dynamos. The Ancient Wyvern let out another roar and spread it wings. The 3 heads the pointed to the sky and shot multiple meteors that dropped down on the group.
"Wonder Wall! / Atomic Shield!"—Chung and Eve quickly brought up their defensive shield to block the barrage of meteors.
"Look like someone is salty."—Add sang as he get off from his dynamos and crackled his knuckles. The others also get into their battle stances.
"Now, the real final battle begins."