HEY EVERYONE! CHAPTER 12 IS DONE! NOT TIME FOR 13 TO BE UNDERWAY! THIS FEELS SLIGHTLY RUSHED, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, BUT I COULDN'T THINK OF ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT. I DON'T OWN DOG DAYS. ENJOY!
Chapter 12: Damn it Jaxson!
"And it seems like everyone is, wait, what is that?" an announcer started, noticing something that was holding its own against different armies.
"That looks like Jaxson?" the other announcer questioned.
"That does seem unlikely, don't you think? He does live in Biscotti, so he wouldn't betray his own people," the first announcer pointed out.
"But only one person wears black like that. He seems to be dancing on the small platforms. He seems like he is doing this effortlessly as well," the other reporter countered.
"Well who do the points go to then?" the first announcer wondered.
"Him directly I guess?" the second announcer questioned her answer.
Down below, Jaxson was practically dancing while moving from platform to platform, keeping two platforms to himself. And since he wasn't aligned in this war, he was racking up quite the amount of points. He hadn't let anyone last one second on his platforms. And people still tried, which resulted in one thing.
He was targeted. Leomitchelli was the first challenger, Jaxson smiling at her.
"Good day milady. Am I to assume you are going to give it your all?" Jaxson greeted the lioness.
"Don't hold back either," Loenmitchelli smiled.
"Oh? So I guess you'll be the first. This isn't an ordinary blade. You see, I like to toy with my prey," Jaxson started, the blade in his left hand crackling a bit. "I hope you don't mind, but I'll be using a blade that is also meant to paralyze people."
Jaxson charged Loenmitchelli and she did the same. They both jumped high, trying to get the literal drop on the other. Instead, their weapons contacted one another, Jaxson's regular blade, which was in a reverse grip, sliding across Leonmitchelli's axe blade. Landing safely on the two platforms, they turned to see the other standing. Jaxson smiled kindly, and made a gesture for her to attack. However, she wasn't the one who attacked next. From seemingly nowhere, Éclair jumped out at Jaxson, who rolled out of the way just in time to avoid being cut. She landed on a different platform, and Jaxson now had two people he needed to watch.
"Tch, a two on one. This might not end well for me," Jaxson observed quickly, whipping one of his pistols out and shooting someone behind him, nailing them dead center of the chest without turning around. Holstering the handgun, he looked at the two carefully, deciding his course of action. However, they didn't grant him that luxury, as the two charged him at once, making him jump straight up. Jaxson then saw something he could do right there and then. Taking both swords in his hands, he dropped straight down, blades pointing towards the ground. Crashing down on the platform, he crushed it, making both Éclair and Leonmitchelli jump off the platform. Now underwater, Jaxson swam under one of the platforms he saw one of them jump to, and surfaced under it. Climbing the pole, he stabbed his swords in the pillar to support his weight as he climbed. After a little struggle with the horizontal part of the underside of the platform, he climbed up, and saw his opponent: Éclair.
"You nearly got me. I'll give you props for that," Jaxson complimented, Éclair's cheeks reddening a bit. "However, it will take a lot more than that to beat me as you already know. A sneak attack only works once."
Jaxson shed his top layer of clothing, leaving him in a pair of black cargo shorts and a white sleeveless shirt. Putting his right foot behind him, and reversing the grip of his swords, he was waiting. Éclair knowing that stance got into a similar one, and Jaxson dashed at Éclair, who did the same. Their blades collided as they passed each other. Turning on a dime, Jaxson intercepted a charging Éclair, now locked in close quarters with Éclair. Each slash, stab, and cut was parried of dodged. The two weren't giving the other the chance to rest as they continued, trying their best to knock the other one off the platform. They locked their blades, looking at each other. Jaxson saw a fire in Éclair's eyes, and Éclair saw his killer eyes, narrowed to the point where one might mistake him as a demon. Jaxson smiled, his eyes reverting to normal, as he went in for the finishing blow. He kissed Éclair, and dropped his blades, Éclair to shocked to do anything. Her blades fell out of her hands, and her went limp, Jaxson holding her. He broke the kiss, and looked at Éclair.
"I couldn't help myself. You're too damn cute for me not to kiss you," Jaxson explained, Éclair punching him in the gut, knocking him back, grabbing her blades. "Tensions are high, but don't do anything rash."
"Rash?" Éclair questioned. "No, this is reasonable. Some well-deserved karma is what you need. I'll just speed up the process."
"I'm warning you, that isn't the best of ideas," Jaxson informed, knelling. However, his kneel was more of a running preparation. Éclair took a step forwards, and Jaxson bolted at Éclair, using his shoulder as a point of impact, hitting Éclair back, almost knocking her off. He picked up his blades, and looked at Éclair.
"And you're one to say what is a good and bad idea? You just kissed me!" Éclair shouted.
"It was in the heat of the moment! I do stupid shit in the heat of the moment!" Jaxson retaliated.
"Why are you so complicated?" Éclair yelled.
"And you aren't?" Jaxson questioned.
It had turned from a blade battle to a verbal one, both trying to gain the upper ground. However, almost everyone saw the kiss, and were wondering the same thing: What the actual fuck? As Éclair was about to attack again, a loud explosion sound came from the distance, Jaxson narrowing his eyes in that direction.
"Stay here. I'll be right back. That didn't sound normal," Jaxson spoke, his voice completely different. It was more serious, and extremely calm. From an outside point of view, it looked like he knew when it would happen. However, Jaxson was acting a bit more aggressive in nature now than before. Vanishing from sight, people now thought he was in control of the air, since a gust of wind followed his departure. Returning, he turned towards everyone.
"Everyone form a defensive perimeter at this point! Do not let anything in the water! Heroes and leaders, come with me!" Jaxson shouted, everyone having a good idea on the situation. He turned to Éclair. "You coming or what?"
Éclair was a bit baffled, but decided to go as well. He got to dry land, and met with Gaul, Loenminchelli, Millhiore, Couvert, the three Heroes, Génoise, and Éclair were the ones who were there. Jaxson did a quick look at everyone.
"Alright. That explosion, it wasn't a demon. It was demons. Multiple. Their forms are a lycanthrope, Andrias davidianus, Pentecopterus decorahensis, and an anomalcaris. If you don't know what those are, in short, a werewolf, Chinese Salamander, prehistoric sea scorpion, and prehistoric carnivorous shrimp. The first two are average sized, but the second two are enormous for their species, at least to my research. They were speculated to be about one point five to one point seven meters long. Just at a glance, they were well over ten meters. If they make it into water, there is no hope of killing them. Just to be safe, no water attacks on them of any kind. Frying them with electricity and fire would be best. The werewolf, we can easily take out. The salamander didn't look to dangerous, but we can't be certain. Gaul, Shinku, you two are on seafood duty. I'll join you once I am done with the lycanthrope. Éclair, you're with me, since they are highly unpredictable. Anyone who is used to the sky will keep them herded in a general area, you are responsible for making sure that they don't get close to water. As long as they are on dry land, we have the upper hand. You three, you'll be supporting Shinku and Gaul, so make sure they don't screw it up as well. Leonmitchelli, you'll also help out with the aquatic ones. Once they are down and out, if the salamander is dangerous, we dispatch of it. If not, I'll have to find a proper habitat for it, as it is an endangered species on Earth. Everyone clear on their duties? Good, let's go then!" Jaxson informed the group. He heard a sigh, and assumed that they used water based attacks. "In case there is fire, you'll have to contain it. If you can somehow break the armor on the two aquatic ones, you'll be there, if not, I'll let you handle the werewolf with me and Éclair, since we might need the help."
Jaxson led the attack group to the demon hotspot, and nearly died once he saw them. The anomalcaris nearly caught him had he not been quick to react. He rolled to the left, and drew his blades. He spotted the lycanthrope, and started to charge at it. The salamander climbed a tree. Once he got to the beast man, be tried a slash, the lycanthrope easily blocked it with its claws, and then countered, Jaxson catching the claws on his other blade.
'In mythology, the lycanthrope can be removed in many ways. I can try one method, but if it doesn't work, I'll have to result to the silver test. If those don't work, I'll just behead the bitch,' Jaxson thought, hearing Éclair behind him. Kicking the lycanthrope in the chest to push it back and momentarily stun it, Éclair jumped over him, her blades narrowly missing the head. Éclair jumped back to stand next to Jaxson.
"Do you have any silver?" Jaxson asked. "It's just a stupid myth, but these things are supposed to be a myth as well."
"No silver. But I can do this," Éclair smirked, her right arm being engulfed in green energy, a metallic hand holding an energy sword. Éclair charged at the man-beast, and brought the weapon down on its head, the energy going right through it. Éclair went wide eyed as the weapon didn't even phase the lycanthrope, as it slashed her torso, followed by throwing it her at Jaxson knocking them both down with Jaxson under Éclair. Jaxson moved Éclair off of him, and barely managed to grab a blade before the werewolf attacked again. He blocked one of the clawed hands, the other one cutting his left eye, which didn't even cause him to flinch. He took one of Éclair's blades in free hand an slashed the torso, the blade leaving an almost unnoticeable cut. Jaxson then got up, and dropped the blades. The salamander blinked.
'No weapon is strong enough here to kill it. It's build is both human and wolf. Snapping the neck is a simple way to kill it biologically. It should work. I just need to get behind hit,' Jaxson thought, getting into a fighting stance. Not many knew it, but he is versed in hand-to-hand combat, but never uses in unless it is dire. He defined this as dire. He ran at the lycanthrope, and jump kicked it's torso, and flipped over, preforming an axe kick, knocking it to the ground. Right then, all his training went out the window, and he grabbed the head of the man-beast. He then repeatedly punched its face over and over, throwing the original plan out the window. He was also shouting multiple things, some which would make a sailor blush. He then got on the back of the downed creature, and snapped its neck, feeling for a pulse. It stopped as soon as the neck was snapped.
He looked with his right eye and saw that the anomalcaris was dead now as well, and the others were trying to kill the Andrias davidanus. He picked up both his blades, and took a deep breath. He charged while partially blinded, and slid under the sea scorpion, and ran both blades against the underbelly of the creature, hearing an angered roar. He looked, and saw that he now had its attention. He knew that he fucked up with that last attack, but at least the others had an opening. He stood there holding the left side of his face, covering his eye. As he was about to be impaled by the stringer, a traditional looking ninja star cut it off cleanly, blood coming from the tail. Another roar, but this one was a painful one. He saw the fox girl from earlier land in from of him. He smiled, and decided to let the pain and exhaustion catch up to him. He collapsed on the ground, fainting in front of everyone.
The salamander blinked again.
THANK YOU FOR STAYING THIS LONG. HOPEFULLY THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE UP BY WEDNESDAY MAYBE? AND YOU'LL GET THE ANSWERS TO MANY QUESTION, LIKE WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SEA SCORPION? WHERE WILL THE RELATIONSHIP GO FROM HERE? AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE SALAMANDER?!