SOUL EATER: ~AFTERMATH~
Chapter 17 - The Determined Berserker... Does he Even Feel it?
"SOUL RESONANCE!" Gordon shouted in a powerful voice. Jake was surprised because the battle was just beginning. The battle axe let out a fierce bark that echoed throughout the woods. The skinny guardian slowly began to gain muscle mass. Once he had nearly doubled in size he charged Jake. He had gone from holding Rex like to professional to swinging him like a madman.
"He's being sloppy, we should attack." Jake told Dani. He swung her slicing Gordon's arm.
"You got him!" Dani shouted excitedly. Then she gasped when Gordon punched Jake in the gut causing him to slide backwards. "What the hell?"
Gordon let out a vicious battle cry and charged Jake again, bashing him in the side of the head with the flat side of his ax. Jake caught himself before he fell and slashed at his leg. Another successful hit but it didn't even phase Gordon.
"It's like he can't even feel it." Dani said baffled.
"No look..." Jake pointed to the cut on his arm, it was steaming and had already cauterized itself shut.
"THAT'S NO FAIR!" Dani whined.
"I don't think he cares-" Jake raised Dani to deflect another attack from Rex.
"NO ONE!" Gordon was screaming at the top of his lungs. Jake distanced himself from him and began to think of a plan.
"How can we beat him if our attacks don't even hurt him?" Dani asked him worriedly.
"Wait... it's not that he doesn't feel them. It's the fact that they heal before they can cause him any real harm."
"So what you're saying is...?"
"If we can manage to attack him enough, maybe the pain will cause him to surrender." Jake explained intelligently.
"Worth a shot- JAKE!" Dani began the yelled when Gordon reached for Jake. He ducked under his massive hand and thrusted Dani upwards straight through it.
"AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!" Gordon bashed Jake with the flat side of Rex again causing him to lose him grip on Dani leaving her in the giant's palm.
"DANI! CHANGE BACK!" Jake shouted to her.
"Oh, right!" Dani shouted back returning to her normal form and dislodging herself from his hand. Before she could run back to Jake Gordon grabbed hold of her.
"DANI!"
"DIE!" he yelled angrily and the battle axe barked at the words. Gordon began to squeeze her tightly.
"OWWWWW! LET GO ASSHOLE!" Dani screamed in pain.
"Change again!" Jake commanded her. She quickly changing back cause Gordon to squeeze the blade, slicing his hand open. He dropped Dani and Jake grabbed hold of her then dashed back to a safe distance once again.
"LITTLE BITCH! GORDON WILL KILL YOU!"
"Dani, let's do it." Jake said holding her sideways.
"Okay. Soul resonance..." the both of them talked simultaneously. They could feel the world around them begin to halt to a stand still and watched as Gordon froze like a statue. "...Autumn Storm..."
Gordon watched confused as they disappeared from his vision. "WHERE DID YOU GO?" Large cuts and lacerations began to appear on his body as Dani and Jake rushed around him. In mere seconds Gordon had become drenched in his own blood, even with the wounds quickly closing themselves. He fell to his knees and propped himself up on Rex.
"Wait..." he coughed as blood dripped from his mouth. "No more..."
Jake and Dani reappeared in front of him. They waited for him to finish speaking before they decided whether or not to finish him.
"Gordon... Gordon surrenders..." he slowly began to lose the recently acquired muscles and shrank back to his skinny but still tall original form. All the wounds he had gotten during the battle had disappeared and Rex changed back into a dog again.
"You children are truly powerful. I can believe that you are searching for someone and fully understand that you need to get through here." Gordon made his way to his feet and stepped towards the gate.
"We're glad that we didn't have to finish that fight. We really didn't want to hurt you." Jake explained.
"It's fine. You were amazing opponents..." he complimented the two of them. "I'll let you through, but I have to tell you, no one has come through before y-"
His words were cut short as well as the rest of his body as Messor in a sickening yet graceful way came down from almost out of nowhere and sliced clean through him with Ryder. Rex began barking hysterically at Messor but was dealt with in a similar fashion as Gordon. Messor then turned his attention to Jake and Dani.
"You... you..." Jake was searching for what to say but couldn't think of anything.
"Monster? Bastard? ...Demon? ...I kinda like that last one..." Messor said without so much as smiling at his own smug remark.
"YOU KILLED HIM! JUST LIKE YOU KILLED THOSE STUDENTS! HE WASN'T EVEN ABLE TO DEFEND HIMSELF!" Jake was swelling with rage.
"Neither were those students... but that didn't stop me either."
"YOU'RE A FREAK!" Dani screamed at him.
"I told you before... I prefer Demon..."
They could hear Ryder murmuring to himself. "This is... way more than I was expecting... way more... it's crazy... it's insane..."
"Ryder! You don't agree with what Messor is doing?" Jake asked him sincerely.
"... Are... ARE YOU STUPID? I FUCKING LOVE IT! This is much more power than we were expecting!" Ryder sounded more excited than Messor but then again they were two completely different personalities.
"Now if you don't mind... we don't have time to waste on you..." Messor turned and kicked the large gate open. Jake wanted to tell him to stop but only watched as he and Ryder disappeared on the other side.
"JAKE WHY DIDN'T YOU TRY TO STOP HIM?" Dani wasn't thinking about what she was saying.
"Dani... I'm still not match for him. Do you want to die? Because that's what would happen if we tried to face him now. The only reason he didn't kill me last time was because Lord Death saved me." he was yelling at her without trying.
"...So... they all died for nothing?" Dani was starting to sniffle.
"No... we have to return to Lord Death and tell him that they got away..."
"...Okay let's go then..." she wiped the forming tears from her eyes hugged Jake tightly as they made their way back to the DWMA.
Chapter 17- FIN