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Note: Now its Zakuo vs Jekt! Sorry, Zelferd's injured. READY, FIGHT!!!
Chapter 24
Share the Pain
And in one fluid motion, Zakuo flicked his katana out and placed it back in its sheath.
"Hey kid, it's not playtime, eh? You should get-" SLINK! A slash wound appeared on the side of Jekt's stomach, blood spraying out profusely. "Wha?!"
"Heh, that attack was called Quick Draw. I draw my katana so fast that a sonic boom resonates out of my hilt. Pretty cool, huh?"
Gritting his teeth, Jekt yelled, "You talk really smart-like, let me shut those lips of yours so that you can't talk at all!"
Lifting one finger, Zakuo lazily beckoned him with a smile. "Come here and try, 'Jekt',"
Smirking, Jekt jumped on top the boulder again and this time took out the embedded black sword. "Well then…" Jekt did a back flip to get behind the boulder. He then lifted his leg and slammed his foot into the back of the boulder, sending it rolling towards Zakuo.
"Wow, smart one." He looked back and remembered that Zelferd was injured back there. 'Gosh, he's so lame sometimes…ah well.'
Zakuo took one step forward and executed the Quick Draw move again. The boulder split in two and fell on opposite sides of each other. Before the two slices of boulders fell down completely a spherical object zoomed in between and hit Zakuo square in the stomach.
With a cough, he was sent sliding back until he did a back roll and placed his left hand on the ground for braking. The blitz ball on the other hand rolled back to Jekt, somehow.
"Tch, I have to admit I didn't see that move. Good one."
Jekt smirked in triumph. "Well then, I guess I'll take that as a full-on compliment." He pointed his sword at Zakuo and yelled out, "Let's forget about this fancy fight, eh?! Let's fight like men!"
Zakuo got up and slapped some dust away from his pants. His upper body was bare, showing the tedious markings of sweat and dirt. "Alright, let's get down to it."
Jekt took that as an invitation to start first, so he twirled his sword around and then rushed his blade towards Zakuo. He on the other hand had a firm grip on his hilt. When the blade almost touched Zakuo's chest, he drew his katana out in front of the blade's point and blocked it.
With wide eyes, Jekt mutters, "What the….your katana, it doesn't have a blade! How can you block my attack?!"
Suddenly, an outline of air appeared on the hilt, forming some kind of wispy blade. "No one can see the blade, it's all made out of air. I can master any type of attack that has to do with air, like this one. "
Just then he gulped in a huge amount of air, making his cheeks bloated. In one breath, he shot out a gush of wind that pushed Jekt back 20 feet away. The power of the wind ripped out the ground beneath its direction. Jekt held his arm up to block the air that was starting to push against his face.
"Grrr, I have just about enough of this! Screw the wind, I'll kill you with the earth!" Jekt grabbed his sword, which was somehow on his back, and swung forward, totally annihilating the force of the wind. "There we go, now let's see… Planet Drive!"
Jekt stabbed the sword into the ground and swung upwards, sending out a huge, linear line of sparks and jagged spikes to appear out of the ground.
Zakuo did a suicide jump towards the attack with his arms and legs spread out wide. With one huge breath, he kept himself afloat as he reached towards Jekt.
"I got you!" He grabbed Jekt's hair and slammed it down to the ground, making his vision very fuzzy. Zakuo held his katana at Jekt's neck, making sure that he doesn't do anything sneaky. "You should give up, your skills are not up to par with mine, no offense."
"Hmhm, no offense? Pff, no offense MY ASS! Sin's Omegaton!!!!" Jekt raised his left arm and suddenly his hand turned into a huge, gaping mouth that looked just like Sin's. A huge purple sphere which felt like gravity suddenly appeared in the gaping mouth.
"This…doesn't look good.." And Zakuo was right.
The sphere shot out in point blank range, hitting Zakuo in the stomach. Because of the extreme force of the sphere, Zakuo was sent rocketing skywards with the ball still in contact with his stomach. "Damn, I need to get this thing off of me! Wha?!"
The sphere started to glow and with 1 blip, it exploded into a mass of purple haze. Jekt looked up into the sky with a triumphant look on his face. "Heh, finally I killed that nuisance of a Hunter. Better go back to....hm?" Looking closely at the haze, a huge sphere of air suddenly pushed the haze away, revealing Zakuo without any hint of injuries from the haze.
"Tch, you should've been burned in the haze!"
Zakuo dropped to the ground on both of his feet and waved his finger in a no-no-like fashion. " Hey, I thought we were gonna fight like men?"
Scratching his head, Jekt apologetically said, "Whoops, hehe, sorry bout that. Restart?"
Rolling his eyes, Zakuo replied, "Sure thing..."
Both the opponents sprinted towards each other, their weapons drawn out. Jekt held out his weapon as to pierce through Zakuo's body, but he nimbly sidestepped and went past Jekt a few feet away. Just when Zakuo placed his katana into his sheath, a huge cut slashed itself into Jekt's stomach. The blood was starting to cover Jekt's frontside.
"Jekt....it seems that everytime I slash at you, there's no way to make you stagger or anything. How's that?" Zakuo turned around to face Jekt, his face all serious.
Jekt on the other hand had his sword hoisted onto his shoulder with the blitzball in his left hand. "I dunno myself, its just how my physical nature is. I guess it's because I'm the 1st strongest of the Variants."
Zakuo then smirked at his answer. "Alright then, I've never shown many people this technique that I have. I'm hoping that you could survive against it." He took out his katana once again.
Jekt looked on and smiled, waiting for this great moment. "Hence the word 'hope', eh?"
Having both of his hands a few inches away and curled, as if he was holding a small ball, Zakuo then created some kind of sphere made out of swirling air. And it started to get bigger and bigger. His hands started to shake, and so knowing that he had to release it sometime soon, Zakuo took his hands away from the sphere and it expanded swiftly until it surrounded both him and Jekt in a swirling dome of air.
There was one thing Jekt noticed. He was starting to lose oxygen in his lungs. He started gasping for air, grabbing his throat with his hands. "Wha.....gah.....what is this?!" His voice sounded like a wheeze.
"This technique is the called the Air Dome. I manipulate a sphere of air into my hands and start pumping in a huge amount of air into the sphere. When it get's to its limit, it'll start shaking, warning me to let go. Once I let go, we're inside a makeshift dome of air, like this one. And whoever the victim is...they lose their precious oxygen while the user, which is me, have normal breathing....."
Jekt plunged his sword into the ground, gasping and wheezing like some weak, old man. "Damn you.....damn you all to hell!!!!"
Zakuo's katana made a schlink sound, and another, and another, until there were at least 50 'schlinking' sounds. And after he finished, he placed his katana silently into his sheath. A soft 'chink' sound was heard from the katana, and those 50 sounds suddenly turned into sonic booms, slashing and slicing every part of Jekt's body, transforming the dome into a swirling mass of blood.
The dome then dissipated, leaving only a VERY bloody Jekt and a bruised Zakuo. "THAT is also one of the things that I do in this dome. Relentlessly damaging my opponents until both their air and nerves are destroyed. It was too bad, I thought you were gonna survive."
But Jekt couldn't hear him, as he was already dead. His eyes were rolled back and his mouth was spilling blood onto the grass.
Walking towards Zelferd's unconscious body, Zakuo winced and fell down to one knee. Looking at his waist, there was a clean cut with blood dripping down.
"Damn, Jekt got me good when we charged against each other..." Closing his eyes, Zakuo muttered, "Will, good luck...." And with those words said, he laid down on his back and looked at the afternoon sky. "Hehe, we are SO screwed when we come back to HQ."
Unbeknown to Zakuo, the white long coated figure was standing right next to Zelferd's unconscious body, surveying the field. 'Heh, that was an interesting fight. Good thing I didn't intervene this one....although I'll HAVE to intervene the last one. The battle with Seymour....how long ago was that?'
The figure then disappeared into a mist of blackness.
BACK AT THE AIRSHIP/WILL'S POV
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FINALLY!!! I got the airship above the waters of Baaj Temple, where Tidus fell into the water with that huge cage-fish thing. I had my parachute bag on my back which fit snugly. I pressed the button on the dashboard and it blinked green. The window opened slowly and let in the brisk afternoon air inside.
Looking out the hatch window, there were many of those stone bridges and passageways interconnected. Some were already crumbling from age and many others were already broken down. The waves roared against my ears, and it crashed into the bridges, creating one of those huge, explosion noises.
Alright, when I saw everyone jumping off the ship towards their destinations, I thought it looked pretty easy. But now that its MY turn, it looks like I'm gonna be doing a frickin suicide or something. I think I'm about 50 feet above some stone platform, and it looked pretty wide, so no matter how far I get misdirected, I'll land on that platform, no problem.....I hope.
I took several steps back, took a huge intake of breath and ran forward. Once I got to the edge of the hatch I then jumped off with my arms and legs flailing wildly in the air. OH MY GOD!!!
As I went down, the wind pushed me strongly to the left and almost pushed me off course. But once I was above 16 feet, I pulled the parachute bag, opening up some kind of circular balloon, which slowly helped me descend downwards to dry ground.
Once my foot touched the ground I ripped off the parachute and laid on the ground with my stomach. Whew, the air can be quite a fright. Whoever wanted to fly....must've been really crazy.
That's when I noticed something odd in the atmosphere. Ngh!
I did a side-roll to the left and nearly dodged an electric bolt. Well, it sounded like something that a flickering lightbulb would make. I looked up and saw at the doorway of the Baaj Temple, Seymour with his wand aimed at me.
I walked forward until I got to the same spot where Tidus fell in the roaring waters. But I won't make the mistake that he made, which was stepping on a weak, unstable bit of the walkway. I reverted my right arm into my 3 bladed scythe arm and clenched the claws together.
Seymour opened his arms wide, probably trying to welcome me. "Welcome to Baaj Temple! I've been expecting you for at least 30 minutes!" See, I told you it was some kind of welcoming dialogue.
"Seymour, shut up! You know why you and I are here today! It's to duke it out and see who's goals will be fulfilled. Someone who wants to KILL all the Hiends, and someone who wants to PRESERVE the Hiends!"
Nodding his head nonchalantly, Seymour then yelled out above the waters, "Yes, you are right, Will! So shall we...start?" He aimed his wand at me again and fired off a huge fireball. Spells? Oh please.
I crouched down until my knees were 90 degrees, and then I sprung skyward, heading towards Seymour. I held my arm up and had it ready to slash down at him.
"YOU'RE MINE SEYMOUR!!!" But boy was I wrong.....
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A/N: Daaang, Zakuo vs Jekt? That was an interesting battle that I liked to write. Although, it seemed Jekt died too easily....meh, who knows? And look at that, now it's the climactic battle between Will and Seymour. Who will win? Who's goals will be fulfilled in the end?
And it seems that mysterious guy knows about...something here. Well, we'll find out on the next chapter! No, we really will! :D
So I hope you enjoyed this chapter so far, and please R&R!!! :D