Chapter Eight – Jacob vs. Cergo!
"…and she just walked away!" Dylan was finishing up the story about what had happened to him and Jacob earlier that day.
"Wow. That's incredible." Victor commented, "Hard to believe that there are only One-Hundred mamodo, and we've already met three of them – two if you count Tanjit and Jacob!"
"Yep. So after that, we just kept training!" Jacob added.
"Well it sure sounds more fun than visiting what Tanjit and I did…" Victor admitted, shaking his head.
Dylan laughed, "You just weren't sightseeing at the right sights."
"We saw some big, red tower!" Tanjit stated.
"The Tokyo Tower." Victor corrected.
"Oh yeah. Did you know that it's taller than the Eiffel Tower by just thirteen meters?" Dylan pointed out.
"Eye-full tower? What's the tower's eye full of?" Jacob asked, Tanjit laughing.
"Oh, well, never mind. I'm tired, I need to sleep." Dylan stated, yawning.
"Okay, then lets go to bed!" Jacob said, excitedly.
"Pymara!" Dylan yelled.
Jacob blasted his fire towards the two enemies, hitting one of them – the human with the spellbook.
"Why Dylan? Why?" Begged the human as the mint-green spellbook he was holding began to burn.
The light from the burning book reveled the two enemies' faces: It was Victor and Tanjit!
"No!" Dylan screamed as he awoke from his nightmare.
"What, what, what?" Tanjit asked, running into the room.
"Sorry, bad dream." Dylan apologized.
"Waa! Waa! Did Diwin have a bad dweamy weamy?" Tanjit teased.
"Yes! And as a matter of fact, it had to do with you getting vaporized!"
"Oh. Well, um..." Tanjit shuddered.
"It's 7:00, anyway. Time for breakfast!" Dylan said, getting up, "Jacob, get up!"
"I'm up! I'm ready! Let's train!" Jacob jumped up, excitedly.
Later That Day"Pymara!" Dylan called out yet again, after a long day of training.
"Boom!" said the blast as it hit the ground.
"Great! You know what? I think we're ready!" Dylan told Jacob.
"…pant…pant…Good…pant…pant…" said Jacob, exhausted.
"Let's rest for the next hour until it's time for the battle." Dylan said as he picked up his worn-out mamodo and started to carry him back home.
"…pant…Thanks, Dylan…pant…pant…" Jacob said.
Jacob slept the whole time. Dylan was worried that maybe he had pushed his mamodo too hard in training – until he woke him up to tell him that it was almost time for the battle, and Jacob bounced all over the place!
"Finally! Let's go!" Jacob cheered.
"Hold it. We're coming too! You supported us in our first solo battle, now we're supporting you!" Victor said as he and Tanjit stood up.
"Thanks guys." Dylan smiled.
A few minutes later, the four stood at the entrance to the park. They could see Jessica and Cergo waiting for them.
"Are you ready for this?" Jessica asked, smiling.
"I'm positive that-" Dylan started.
"Well ready or not, here we come! Beshose!" Jessica called out.
Cergo opened his mouth and a burst of fire shot towards Jacob!
"Pymara!" Dylan commanded quickly.
The two fire blasts collided and bursted into light, canceling each other out!
"Pymara!" Dylan yelled.
Jacob's fire flew towards Cergo.
"Beshose!" Jessica called out, using Cergo's attack as a defense, just as Dylan had.
'Aha! They don't have a defensive spell, or else she would have used it instead of Beshose!' Dylan thought to himself.
"Beshose, Cergo! Beshose!" Jessica ordered.
Cergo shot a blast of fire and Jacob jumped into the air to avoid it. The fire blasted the ground below him, sending him into the air!
"Perfect! Pymara!" Dylan called, smiling.
Jacob's attack rushed at Jessica and her book! Amazingly, Cergo jumped high into the air and into the attack! The blast hit him directly in the chest! He fell to the ground.
"Cergo! I should've called out our spell! You didn't have to get hurt!" Jessica said, checking Cergo for any bad burns.
Cergo started, "I-"
"Pymara!" Dylan commanded.
Before they knew it, Jessica and Cergo saw another burst of fire heading for them.
"Beshose!" Jessica called.
The two blasts again cancelled each other out, saving them!
"Again! Beshose!" Jessica said.
"Jacob!" Dylan called his mamodo, "Twirl your arms this time! Pymara!"
Jacob did as he was told, and his attack twirled as well! It twisted right around Cergo's attack and right into Cergo!
"Cergo! Are you okay? Please wake up! Pea-" Jessica's talking drifted into sobbing.
'Wow she really cares about Cergo. They have a very close bond.' Dylan thought, 'But I know that Jacob and I can win this if he just tries his very best!'
"Jacob, I believe that you can win, but I'm fighting my best friend and I can't stand to see her upset! We have to end this without actually ending it!" Dylan explained.
"Beshose!" Jessica commanded, not hearing anything Dylan said.
Cergo got up carefully, and attacked towards Dylan.
As the attack flew, Dylan kept talking,
"And I know that if we were really going to end it, you could win for sure!" Dylan added.
Then, Jacob's spellbook began to glow many different colors! Reds, blues, and yellows! Dylan looked down and he was amazed to find that the next line could be read!
"The next spell: Zecloid…" He read it to himself.
"Zecloid!" Dylan called out the new spell.
Jacob's eyes and hands also began to glow with the primary colors, and a huge wall made up of the same colors rose up from the ground in front of him! Cergo's attack hit the wall and died out!
"It's a shield!" Dylan and Jacob exclaimed at the same time.
"Oh no, they learned a defensive spell! We're going to loose…" Jessica worried.
"No. Your not. And neither are we." Dylan said, seriously.
"Huh?" Jacob, Cergo, and Jessica were confused.
"Jessica, this is ridiculous! We are best friends! And our mamodos are evenly matched…well they were…until Jacob learned a new spell…" Dylan explained, "What I'm saying is, we should end this battle and wait until you and Cergo learn a new spell. That way we'll be evenly matched again!"
"Dylan…that's very nice of you…" Jessica was touched.
"Well you're a friend. You and Cergo!" Dylan added.
"Hahaha! Hear that Cergo? We get some more time to train and learn a new spell!" Jessica was pleased.
They walked towards the exit of the park, and Cergo stopped when he was near Dylan. He turned and looked at him.
"Thank you." He muttered just loud enough for Dylan to hear, then proceeded to exit.
"Great job you guys! Now you know a defensive spell, too! And it's so cool!" Victor said.
"I know!" Dylan said.
"Great job Dylan!" Jacob told his partner.
"Thanks, but it was all you out there, man! When you jumped up and attacked that one time…that was awesome!" Dylan complimented.
The four friends went back home discussing the battle, excited. But, still, they all worried about the day that they would have to use their spells against each other…