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In the darkness of someone's unconscious state a young adult girl around the age of 19 opened her eyes seeing the darkness leading to nowhere. She looked around wondering what had happened to her.
"Where am I right now?" She questioned herself. "Did I die and go into the Realm of the Dead?" She looked about wondering to herself. "Still, it feels odd talking to myself in this place." She folded her arms thinking what happened until another voice spoke. "Can you hear me?" The voice asked, and sounded like a woman's voice. The girl was spooked by the sudden voice and looked around.
"Who's there? Who are you?" She asked frantically. "Ah good, I have reached you! I'm speaking to your subconscious state of mind. As for who I am I can't say just yet." The girl looked up thinking that is where the voice is coming from. "And for your other questions, no you are not dead. You are merely unconscious right now. You and I can only talk for a short time!" The voice explains in a hastily tone. "Uh ok, so if I'm not dead. Where am I at the moment?" The girl asks the voice.
"It's likely you are somewhere in Central City. But right now it seems you are going to wake up. So with little to say, you must find the Book!" She told her, as the girl was confused. "What do you mean? What book?" She asked, however she could tell she was waking up now and seeing a small speck of light growing.
"The Book of…! Find it, quickly! Before… or else the world is…" The Voice starts fading away as the girl is blinded by a flash of light. As she starts regaining her consciousness.
Clash in the Caverns, The Awakening of the Silver Storm!
Apartment Bedroom
The girl opens her eyes to reveal she is in a room on a bed to be exact with comfortable sheets. As she sat up, she grimaced from her side and looked down at herself seeing she was bandaged up from her waist, left lower arm, as well as her right foot. She had shorts on as well as a small top covering her chest which was also bandaged up. "Where am I? Someone's bedroom?" She looked and noticed her actual clothes were neatly folded on a chair. "Oh yeah… I almost forgot what happened."
She thought about how Red Heart, Lime Heart, and Ice Heart started going up against her which made things difficult for her. She even used some elemental power to try to turn the tables and beat them, but it wasn't enough against them. However she now noticed something seemed off. But she will worry about it later, as she had to find out who was speaking to her and what the voice wanted her to do. Her train of thoughts were interrupted when a door opened. She looked to see who it was.
"Ah I see you are finally awake." A young male around her age says. He walks to the side of the bed. "I kinda got worried when I found you crashed into the forest." It took her only a moment to notice that he was the one who bandaged her up. She started blushing and punched him in the face knocking him out of the room! "You pervert! Don't you realize you shouldn't strip a girl when they are unconscious!" She slams the door shut in anger. She pouts and then looks at her clothes which looked freshly clean, possibly the guy washed her clothes when she landed in the forest.
After some time she exits the room and goes into the living room seeing the guy on one of the 2 couches holding a cloth on his nose. Which looks like she had punched him in the nose and was bleeding. He looks at her and removes the cloth to show it is covered in blood. "You pack a mean punch I'll be honest. Never met a girl such as you." He mentions covering his nose again. "Also sorry for… what I did, I was just helping really." He apologizes to her.
She sits on the other couch with a slight blush still. "You should never do such a thing. So next time let other people do the job." She tells him. "It's not gonna be easy with how things have been. This corporation is making things difficult for the people here." She looked confused about what he meant. "But, before I get to more detail of that I should introduce myself. You may call me Jeffrey or Jeff if you want." Jeff is a pale young adult male, he has smooth black hair and blue eyes, he wears a dark blue short sleeved shirt with a black and white-lined short sleeved jacket with a breast pocket, silver on the bottom sides, silver collar, Blue ends of the sleeves, he also has a pendant of a purple crystalized moon. He wears Black and silver fingerless gloves, on his left wrist he has a black band with a violet stone embedded on it, has a belt with a silver buckle underneath his jacket, he wears dark gray pants, and has black boots with metallic soles.
"What is your name?" He asks her curiously. She looked at him curiously, though he did help her so it's better than being silent. I don't know if he knows I am who he thinks, for now I won't reveal until then. She thought to herself and looked at Jeff. "My name is Audrey, and you better remember it well." She tells him. Audrey is a pale adult girl with Blonde hair down to her shoulders, and blue eyes, she wears a white tank top under a black short sleeved zipped up Jacket with designs to be cyber/mechanical patterns and with a symbol of a cyber style A with circuitry designs on the left breast. She of course has C cup size breasts, but it's tough to tell from her jacket. She wears black jeans with glowing cyan circuitry designs, and silver boots. "I see, well Audrey I have questions about how you fell from the sky and why you fell."
She wondered if he already knows why, though she has doubts he does currently. "I'm sure you would like to know. However I need to be sure I can trust you on this before I can tell you." Audrey explains to him. "There are some things that might make you in disbelief." Jeff looked at her for a moment and nodded. "Understandable, I guess I'll get my answers later when the time comes." He stands up and goes to the door. "Where are you going?" Audrey asks, wondering what he is gonna do.
"I'm doing some investigation on the Cyber Corps here in Central City." He answers her question. Now she wonders who the 'Cyber Corps' are, it seems like the name comes from one of the other nations. "They reside in Central City, and they have built many things including some towers. If you look out the window, you can see the Center, Northern and Eastern from where we are at." He points to the window behind her. She stands up to look through the window, from her guess they were around at the North Western part of Central City and she could barely see the Eastern Tower behind the Central, and the Northern is seeable with barely any building in the way. The three towers are all Black Towers, though the Central Tower has White glowing circuitry and the mark of Cc near the top of it, the Eastern she can't see but there are some noticeable silver stuff to it, and finally the Northern Tower has cyan circuitry as well as P symbol over a Snowflake.
I guess the Symbols indicate something related to the other nations. I wonder why they built them. Audrey thought to herself as Jeff picked up items hovering them over his band and they disappeared. "Whoa! How did you make those vanish?!" She asks him and he looks at her. "Oh this band I have is a storage unit. Anyone who is registered as a "Fighter" is given these whenever they get healing items and such." He explains to her. "This system has been like that for a long time."
"I see, and you are going out to do some fighting?" He nods at her question. "Can I come along with you?" He looked at her confused until she summoned a longsword that is a silver blade with cyan circuitry pulsing through, while the hilt and handle of the blade is a mechanical design with a silver cloth wrap around the handle. "I might not look like it but I can handle myself in combat!" Jeff was surprised at this. It took him a moment to recompose himself. "Well I guess you can tag along, though you'll need to be registered as a Fighter to be able to explore or fight monsters. You'll also be allowed to accept quests." He explains to her and leads her out of the apartments to the Guild where people can register as Fighters to fight off monsters.
They get to the building and Audrey registers herself to be a Fighter. It's best I keep who I am hidden for now. For now I'll need to prepare myself until I can get back to my home. Audrey said in her thoughts. As the person at the desk looks at the papers. "So you are a resident from Agniratha?" She asks Audrey. "Yes? Is that a problem?"
"Well there are Guild stations in all 5 nations so…" She started saying.
"Just go with it, also you can choose whatever color gem you want to set up which is what powers your bands." Jeff explains to her. Audrey is given a silver band and she picks a cyan gem to attach. Once done she gets a hologram menu listing 'Items, Equipment, Quests, Party, Skills, Stats, (Error)' "There you go, now you are registered. But what is that Error one?" Jeff questions while Audrey feels a bit unsure but may have a guess why. "I never had another one on my list."
"Guess we'll wonder that later." She answered and then remembered something. "I believe you said you found me somewhere in the forest area. Can you show me where?" He looked at her for a short moment, then nodded. "Sure, I can show where you landed." The two leave the guild building and head towards the North Western forest area.
The duo arrived in the forest and noticed some monsters such as boars, living plants, and slimes. "Yeah, as it has been. There are monsters around the area, however it seems there are more than when I found you last night." Jeff explains as he summons a white silver long sword with a blue cloth on the handle. "Might as well start on exploring while taking out some of the monsters here." The two go forward as the monsters turn to see them approaching, and by instinct for a few of the monsters move to them. The two wielding sword fighters slash at the monsters taking them out and gaining XP to level up.
After taking out the monsters that got in their path, they reached the place as Audrey asked. "This is the spot I found you at." There is a wide open crater with some cracks in the center of it. The two got in a bit closer and She looked up to the sky wondering. I wonder if the others are up there or went back to their nations. She thought to herself. Jeff looked at the wandering monsters. "I kinda wonder what the goddesses will do with all these monsters wandering around." Audrey looks to him thinking that might be a solution. It'll be weird if I have to visit the others nations, but whatever the case we need to be ready. Suddenly the two heard some crumbling and looked down below seeing the cracks grow larger below their feet. Before they could react the ground breaks apart making them fall down into the darkness.
After about 30 or so minutes the two started regaining consciousness. The two got on their knees or sat up then standing up to see their surroundings, they are currently down in a cavern of some sort with many colored crystals sticking out of the ground or cavern walls. "Hey are you alright?" Jeff asked Audrey, getting up and having a hand out to her. "Yeah, just a bit bruised." She answered and accepted his hand standing up. "How far are we?" She asked looking up seeing the hole which is quite a ways away. "Well we can't climb, so guess we'll have to set up a magic circle warp. It does look like this is a dungeon." Jeff assumed seeing the environment around them. "I'll set up the magic circle so we can get out and this will have the guild be able to explore this place."
As Jeff was about to go into his inventory when they heard some growling. They turn to see a big black wolf monster about 2.5 times bigger than them, as it moves closer to them growling at them. "Whoa! That's a big wolf!" Audrey says, amazed at the size of the wolf monster before them. "Dammit! This one must have made its home down here! We'll have to beat it so I can peacefully form the circle!" Jeff brings his sword out taking his fighting stance as Audrey does the same.
The wolf swipes at the two with one of its claws which the two barely dodged, Jeff and Audrey use their swords striking the large beast. The large wolf was big so attacking it is of course easy although with long claws the wolf did get a few strikes on them. Audrey then saw Jeff doing something unexpected, he had his sword held behind him until the blade glowed a cyan color. He then leaped and struck the large wolf with what seemed to be a strong hit.
"What did he just do?" She muttered to herself as she almost got slashed by the wolf's claws. Both her and Jeff fight against the large beast dodging any of its attacks as well as hitting it as much as they could, of course they do get hit a few times from the claws or pounces. "Alright! One more push!" Jeff shouts as he readies himself with his blade glowing a red hue. "Vorpal Strike!" He does a powerful thrust strike knocking the large wolf into the cave wall, knocking it out.
After the tension died down Jeff put his sword away and stood up straight same with Audrey as she was amazed with what he did. "Hey what was that you just did? It looked really amazing!" She asked him with her eyes sparkling. "Oh? You mean the Sword Skills?" He asks. "These were implemented long ago. I'll explain after I make the warp and get us out of here." He pulls out his inventory as he pulls a magic pen with a paper designed of a magic circle and he uses the pen drawing on the floor the exact circle that is shown on the paper. Once he finished and stood up the circle glowed signaling that it is now all set up. "Alright let's head out!" He tells Audrey as they take the warp out. However what they forgot to notice was the large Fenrir they were fighting was still alive and walked away from being horribly wounded.
Back at Jeff's apartment as they rested from their recent exploration. "So back what you asked me. The Sword Skills are moves you gain the more you use a certain weapon. For us we both use one-handed swords, of course there are skills for Rapiers, Maces, Axes, Spears, Two-handed swords, and Katanas." He explains to her. Audrey wondered if one of the others could use them. "Isn't there also Magic stuff? I was certain there were people that use magic." She asks him and he thinks a bit. "Yeah, I believe there are some people who use magic. There are even some schools for people to learn magic, plus you could even learn magic to come up with special kinds of attacks. Pull up your Skills menu." Audrey accesses her menu and opens her Skill menu showing the 'Sword Skills' as well 'Magic'. "Yup, and the more you go into battle you raise your skill levels the more you use them. Though based on your magic it seems your main focus is Thunder/Lightning base magic." He says looking at her menu. Audrey looked a bit concerned about something.
"Ok, so if I use both sword skills and magic I can learn stronger skills?" She asks him and he nods in response. He got his laptop out, going onto the website on any updates on the guilds. He scrolls through to see some news about the underground crystal cavern the two recently found. "Looks like the guild has already started requesting people to explore the recent dungeon we found." He tells her and looks through it more. "There were also some reports about some strange people in there also."
"Do you think it could be the Cyber Corps you were telling me about?" Audrey asks him. Jeff did assume that also, however it is only a slight chance it could be, because for one he knows they have been mining for crystals as power sources. "Well the only way to find out is by going back to the dungeon." He answered her question. "So start getting ready. We don't know what to expect after that wolf beast we fought." Jeff and Audrey get some stuff preparing for their trip to the dungeon, once they were all set they take the warp into the dungeon.
Once they appeared at the spot where Jeff made the warp, they walked forward and noticed something. "Wait, I remembered the wolf was there still." Audrey mentioned now remembering. "Oh you're right! It never disappeared! I guess I didn't realize that it didn't vanish." He admitted as he facepalmed himself. He starts walking forward with Audrey behind him. "If we run into it then we can destroy it for re-." Before he finished his sentence he bumps into something or rather someone and falls down onto his bottom. "Jeff! Are you ok?!" Audrey asks him. "Yeah, but I bumped into someone." He replied.
The area lights up a bit more with the shine of the crystals and the two see a young adult girl around 20 on the ground. "Ow… c-can you watch where you a-are going?" She asks in a shy tone. Jeff gets back on his feet and he holds his hand to her. "Sorry, I didn't really mean to." He apologizes to her. The girl looked a bit nervous but she accepted his hand and stood up. Looking at her closely she is a pale girl with bright red hair and blue eyes which is barely visible under the hood, she wears a white shirt with a light blue sash with a silver medallion with a crown symbol on it from over her left shoulder wrapping around her right side, cyan pants, brown boots. She wears a purple cape with a pink cloth attached at the neck part of the cape from the hood, on the back of the cape is a white swirl mark with curved points shaping like a sun. She is also holding a wooden staff that curves at the top.
"Oh! You must be a sorceress!" Jeff assumes seeing her attire as she hugs her staff shyly. "I'm actually an apprentice at the moment…" She explained with a quiet tone but hearable. Audrey was confused why she is here and not at the school they should train in. "Excuse me for asking, but if you are an apprentice shouldn't you be at the school instead of here?" The sorceress apprentice looked at Audrey with an expression of curiosity. "What?" "Uh sorry, d-do I know you from somewhere?" She asks her. "Uh no, I don't think so." Though Audrey noticed on her left wrist she has a silver band with a pink gem. So she's from Agniritha, it's possible she of course saw me before. Audrey thought to herself. "Well… answering your question. My teacher has suggested I'd go and improve myself by exploring the nations." The girl answered. "Before I forget, my name is A-Alice…"
"Nice to meet you! I'm Jeffrey and this is Audrey!" Jeff introduces him and Audrey to Alice. "Hey, since you are exploring nations, why don't you party with us? It'll be easier since we can take the front while you attack from the back." He suggests the idea to her. Alice took a moment to think about it, but before she could give an answer a low growling started approaching them and they looked to see the same Fenrir monster from before! "So it is still alive!" Audrey exclaimed, summoning her sword. Jeff was surprised seeing it, then noticed something different about it. "Do you see that weird light blue glow around its body?" He was right, the three could see a glow of cyan pulsing through its body through the veins. Almost like it could have been given some sort of power up! "It looks ferocious and mean…" Alice assumed seeing the angered expression on it.
Jeff summons his sword standing next to Audrey. "Take the rear and support with Magic! Me and Audrey will fight it off!" He tells her as the Fenrir charges with a swipe which by surprise it attacked faster than before. "What the heck?! It was never that fast before!" Audrey exclaimed in shock, even Jeff was surprised. The monster was gonna charge again but stopped when it got hit by a Blizzard spell from Alice. It did stall the enemy so Jeff and Audrey took the chances attacking the large Wolf monster in their way. The difficulty is how agile the monster is than before, whatever the light blue glow from its veins is, it is most likely the cause for it being also aggressive.
With Jeff's strategic planning, Audrey's swiftness, and Alice's magic capabilities, they are able to wear down their opponent. As Jeff struck the side of the body, the wolf glowed the light blue color and slashed at him doing some damage to him. Audrey took this chance as her sword glowed a red hue and thrusted her blade at the face. The Wolf did survive the attack as it tried to attack Audrey, Alice backed her up with a Fire spell to the monster's face. It flinched from the spell and Jeff has his blade glow, he slashes in a slant as Audrey unleashes a Sonic Leap attack.
The last attack was enough for the wolf to shine and then shatter into shard pieces flying in the air. Now that it was calm, they could rest. "Well that was rough!" Audrey exclaimed as she drank a potion restoring her strength. "You mentioned that it wasn't as strong before. You fought it before?" Alice asked them. "Yes, we did. But we never killed it before, apparently only just knocked it out." Jeff answered her. "We were going to explore this cave for the guild. Now I feel like we should investigate further, if I were to guess. Whatever happened to the Fenrir monster. It might have been recent or later."
"We won't know unless we see ourselves!" Audrey told the two. "Come on, let's get going!" Audrey walks ahead with Jeff and Alice behind her. The trio continue forward through the caverns facing groups of monsters such as plants, slimes, bats, and crystal golems. "Doesn't this seem like an absurd amount of monsters to be inside a recently discovered dungeon?" Audrey asks the duo. "Probably, maybe. I mean sure there have been reports about large amounts of monsters around the other nations." Jeff explains to them. "Though we might find something here now maybe if we were to-" Before Jeff could finish Alice stopped them. There was a good reason for it, they looked to see a group of people with a few machines. Each of them had different gear all in dark colored, but they seemed to be part of a group as some wielded small, and large swords, some had shields, others had staves meaning they use magic.
"Well that's one side project as the boss ordered!" One of them spoke up. "Although being a side project while he prepares for a Super Soldier to be the "Ultimate Life-form", there have been no worthy candidates especially from that group creating soldiers." Another of the group spoke up. "Sure they did what they are doing, of course the Master will expect things to go smoothly!"
"Well the results from that big wolf were almost perfect, it looked like it was wounded before. That in turn made the transfer unstable and it went wild with anger! We would have been dead if it hadn't run away somewhere." Another of them explained. Which explained what happened to the Fenrir for the trio. Only question is what did they do to it? "Let's return to base and give the details to the boss!" Some of them start having the machines shrink to carriable sizes.
The trio return to hiding to talk about what they heard. "Well, looks like we found the answer to how the monster wolf was enhanced." Audrey whispered to them. "The question is who are they? Jeff, are they from that Corp you told me about?" He shook his head. "No, their outfits are not from the Cyber Corps. But from what they are talking about they seem to be prepping Super Soldiers maybe or something like that." He assumes though unsure. "Should we stop them though? They might be doing something bad." Alice suggested to them. "I just have this feeling right now."
"She's got a good point. Come on, let's do this!" Audrey says and goes forth with her sword summoned. "Hey! Who are you guys and what are you doing!" She demanded as the group of people looked at her direction. "Huh? Who the hell is she?" One of them asked. "She must have overheard our conversation! Roast her!" One Mage assumed and more mages aimed their staves and fired off fireballs. Audrey was surprised and scared, but Jeff got in front of her slicing the fireballs as a few did blast against him though he survived from it. "It's not nice to gang up on a lady!" He says angrily. He charges forth and thrusts his blade at one of the mages leaving a red gash knocking him into the cavern wall then slashes at 3 more of them.
"What the hell is this guy!?" One of them asks in shock! Jeff unleashes a fire spell at one of them, as well as unleashing a Sonic Leap sword skill. He looked to see one of them coming with a large sword. "No one messes with the Dark Army and gets away with it!" He shouted as he swung his sword until Audrey countered with her blade blocking the swing. "Dark Army? So you guys are from some army? Who is your leader!" She demanded from him. "You won't know shit little lady! We will kill you were you stand!" He pushes his weapon against her blade trying to hold her footing.
This would be easier if I could transform, but for some reason I can't access my transformation! Audrey thought to herself while struggling. Guess I'll have to improvise right now! "Thunder Blade!" She suddenly shouted as her blade got electrified like it got enhanced. "What the hell?!" Audrey moved away causing the large sword held by the guy she clashed with to stab into the ground. Audrey then swung her sword striking the guy which blasts him into the wall and paralyzed him from the electricity attack.
"Die bitch!" One guy with a spear runs at her going to pierce her. "Blizzard!" He gets frozen by Alice's Ice magic before he could even hurt Audrey. "You alright?" She asks Audrey. "Yeah, thanks for the backup! But we aren't done yet!" The trio look and see the guys who are a part of this "Dark Army" start to surround them. "You are now surrounded! We will finish you in the blink of an eye!" They were in a tight situation with a bunch of them cornered. Alice was scared while Jeff grimaced at their situation wondering what to do. Though Audrey prepared something which got the duo's attention. "I guess it was smart to charge up some of my remaining magic power. Try this! Eternal Storm!" She unleashes a storm of thunder onto all of the soldiers, shocking all of them from the intense amount of electricity and falling to the ground unconscious.
Jeff and Alice stood straight surprised at the performance that Audrey did, who is currently on her knees exhausted from the amount of magic she used. "Whoa that is amazing!" Alice exclaimed from the thunder attack. "That was an amazing Thunder Attack! I never saw something like that!" Audrey stood back up after a quick rest. "It's mostly like a last resort type of attack… and using up all the magic takes a lot of time to recover after using it." She explains to them. It's even longer if I am unable to transform right now. "Good to know. We got out of a sticky situation, so let's continue through the rest of this dungeon." Jeff suggests and the trio move forward further into the cave dungeon.
The three continued walking through the dungeon as they came across even more monsters on the way. The amount was a lot to deal with and took a while to go through. "There were so many monsters to deal with!" Audrey exclaimed, stretching a bit as Jeff drank a potion. "Yeah, the deeper we go the more monsters there are. This would be a problem if they wander outside the dungeons." He tells her. "For now we should get to the end and see what is there." Audrey nodded then looked around. "Hey where's Alice?" Jeff looked and saw Alice staring at the cavern walls looking at what looks to be a crystal sticking out of the wall which is a pyramid shaped like crystal. "What is it? Is there something that's catching your attention?" Audrey asks her as Alice stares at it curiously like she has seen it before. "I feel like I know what this crystal is, but I'm drawing a blank currently." She answers honestly but knows the answer is just at the tip of her tongue.
"You can worry about that later. Come on, let's go and-" But before Jeff could finish, they noticed the crystal glow surprising the group. Though Alice suddenly realized what it was as monsters appeared from the glow of the crystal. "Whoa! Monsters appeared from it!" Audrey exclaimed as they brought out their weapons to fight off the monsters. "Now I know the answer! It's a summoning gem! They are created to summon powerful creatures depending how it's forged. Plus the creatures only obey the creator of the gem, they can either assist in battle or attack people!" Alice explains as she casted a fire. "Then let's get rid of these first, then destroy the gem to stop the monster spawning!" Jeff told the two girls as he slashed another monster.
About a minute or 2, the trio dealt with the spawned monsters that attacked. Alice pulled the summon gem out of the wall and crushed it with her shoe. "So there were Summoning gems inside. They must have been placed by those guys that said they were from the "Dark Army". It would explain how they are here." Audrey assumes. "No, that's impossible!" Alice shouted out, not agreeing with Audrey's statement. "To craft summoning gems, the maker has to have good influence with magic as well as the necessary materials for summoning the specific creature they want summoned. Plus the stone was red which meant the crafter wants the summoned creatures to attack anyone except the maker." She explains the rules of forging summon gems. "So other people who could create summoning gems… I wonder…" Jeff thought about something out loud. But his train of thought is interrupted by a new voice. "So, it's you that is ruining all of the hard work I've been putting up? And look who else is here, how lucky for me!" A woman's voice spoke up. The trio looked to see a figure walk out of the shadows into the light revealing her figure.
She is a pale woman with a slight bright red tint who looks to be in her 30s, she has crimson red hair with amber colored eyes, a witch with goth appeal dressed in maroon with hints of crimson. Has dark makeup around her eyes and lips, has a big witch hat with a black silver leaf and thorn crimson rose spiraling around. Her outfit is flashy in terms of design, consisting of a bustier like top with thick bands/strings going up the center to hold it together, along with unattached sleeves and very noticeable clawed nails, also has a jagged scarf, has a big belt, tight pants with shoes having a curved up tip.
"How nice to see you here Audrey, I can now get what I truly deserve!" the Witch exclaims with a wide grin, and not a nice one. "Who is that woman? What does she want?" Jeff asks, confused. "And how does she know you Audrey? Do you know her?" Jeff looks at the girl in question but she shakes her head no. "No. I've never seen or met this old woman. But if she knows me, I better beat the answers out of her!" She answered. "Old?! How dare you! I'm a beautiful woman who will be your demise!" She summons a large spear with 3 blades shaped in a wild design. "Your time has come! Fall to despair from my wrath!" She casts a strong fire spell at Audrey which hits her.
Jeff charges first with his sword clashing his blade against the spear held by the mysterious witch. What is strange is her strength overpowered him and she cast darkness magic striking him back. Audrey tries to sneak attack after the fire attack only for her strike to be blocked. "Who the heck are you?! How do you know me?!" She demanded while trying to hold her ground against her. "That's only for me to know, and you to find out never!" The witch replied with a wicked grin as she pushed Audrey off balance and stabbed her with her spear. Audrey backs away while the woman has the ability to float off the ground and fly at Audrey. But before she could reach her, she gets hit by Alice's own fire spell, though not as strong. "Pathetic human, you have no chance against me!" The woman declared as she blocked an incoming attack from Jeff. Human? So she does know who I am. But I never saw her, what else does she know? Wait, if she knows me then she might know the others! Audrey thought to herself, realizing some possibilities the mysterious woman may know more than Audrey thinks. Her thoughts are then interrupted hearing Alice scream in pain and Jeff blasted into the cavern walls.
"Alice! Jeff!" Audrey cried out seeing them harmed. Then turned in time seeing the woman strike her hard. She got angry from her new friends getting hurt. She swung with great force to make the woman block the attack and get knocked back. "You are gonna pay for harming my friends!" She swings using the Sword Skills she learned doing some hits on the mysterious witch who was getting ticked off from this. "ENOUGH!" She shouted and used magic to send Audrey flying into the wall gasping the air out of her. "It looks like my job is done, I will finish you off and be one step closer to glory! But first…" The mysterious witch turns walking over to Jeff who was sitting back up with blood on his face and looking angrily at her. "I have noticed you have something else I need. So I'll be taking that pendant." Jeff held the crystal moon pendant defending it. "Never! This was given to me by my close friend! I will never give it up to a hag like you!" He gritted his teeth and tried to get back up on his feet. "Hmph, hag? Very well I'll take it from your corpse!" The witch raises her spear as Jeff looks with fear seeing that he is going to die.
Jeff's in trouble! Dammit! I need to transform! But why can't I activate it?! Audrey thought desperately in a panic! "Perhaps I can help you." A gentle voice spoke through her thoughts. "Huh? Who's there? And your voice is…" She said, recognizing it. "Your power was locked from when you crashed, allow me to rejuvenate it. Goddess Transformation, activate!" The voice called forth as Audrey's body glows, getting everyone's attention. Her clothes disappear replacing them with the silver leotard with black and white designs, arm sleeves with the mechanical design trims with cyber like wristbands, her cyber stockings and her boots with mechanical designs, and the collar with one half being cyber and the other being mechanical. Her hair changes from Blonde to shiny Silver, her eyes open revealing to be light green and not blue. She summons her silver gray blade with cyan circuitry designs and the handle with the mechanical look to it.
"I am the Silver Storm, Ruler over Agniritha! I am the Goddess Silver Heart!" She exclaimed with a more adult and mature voice, with her flashy entrance! As Jeff and Alice were in awe. "L-Lady Silver Heart?!" Alice said, surprised and amazed to see her. "Audrey is a Goddess?" Jeff asked a bit in disbelief and shock! Silver Heart raised her sword. "Thundaga!" She swings it down as a strong bolt of thunder shocks the mysterious witch, greatly giving Jeff time to get away and drink a potion to recover as well as Alice regrouping with them. "Are you both alright?" Silver Heart asks the two. They were still surprised by the sudden appearance. "Y-yeah, I'm alright Lady Silver Heart!" Alice answered. "S-Same, but you were a goddess?" Jeff asked. "Worry about that later! We got to deal with her!" She looks to the witch who is recovering from the strong thunder attack.
"Dammit, I won't be beaten by you brats!" She exclaimed, readying her spear for combat again. A magic orb appears from Silver Heart and floats into Alice, as she gets a message from her band. 'Thunder Spell accessible!' "I can use thunder magic now!" She says surprised and happy. At the same time Audrey charged forth, clashing her blade against the witch's spear. Only this time she was on equal strength against the witch. With this Jeff took the chance attacking the witch with a Sonic Leap sword skill. Both Jeff and Silver Heart clash against the mysterious woman together using teamwork with Alice casting Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder spells onto the enemy.
"Now try this level of magic!" Silver Heart shouted, charging her magic power surging with large amounts of electricity. "Not this time!" The witch casts a barrier at the moment Silver Heart unleashes her attack which hits the barrier getting reflected towards her! "Audrey! Look out!" Jeff pushes her out of the way, taking the attack head on with his blade in front. "JEFF!" She shouted, scared that he might not survive against something that strong! However it wasn't him that the blast hit, more rather his blade took it and absorbed the electricity which is now sparking like it got an enhancement power. "Whoa! What just happened?" He asked in amazement. Alice noticed this and was really surprised. "Jeff! I think your weapon got enhanced with an Element Imbuement! You can now use the Spark Strike Attack freely! There are also other kinds so it'll be useful for battle!" She explained, Jeff looked at her surprised then grins. "Now this has gotten interesting! Let's go Audrey!" He says to the Goddess who smiles also. "Right with ya!" The two charged forward together as the Witch thrusted her spear, they dodged the attack with Silver Heart striking with a horizontal slash then clashed her sword against the spear. "Audrey! Switch!" Jeff shouted to her, and by instinct she knocked the witch's spear up leaving her open for an attack making her look surprised and shocked. Jeff does a Vorpal Strike straight at her making her fly and bash into the wall knocking her unconscious, giving the trio the victory against the Mysterious Opponent!
"It looks like victory is ours!" Silver Heart exclaimed seeing their accomplishment. Her body glows as she reverts to her normal look with her regular clothes back on her. "Well I'm glad I can transform again!"
"We got a lot to ask from you Audrey. But what should we do about- Wha?!" Jeff tried to say when suddenly sees the mysterious woman had woken up standing up holding her side. "Dammit! To be beaten by low lifes such as you!" She stumbles a bit and grimaces at her defeat. "I may have lost once, but my goal for the Elementals is not dismissed! It'll be the end for you Audrey! You and the others will fall to despair from my power! Ah hahahahahaha!" She disappears in a black flash of light, nowhere to be seen. "That didn't sound pleasant. Though I wonder what she is talking about." Alice wondered with concern. However, not more concerned than Audrey from what the witch said. There were some parts she knew what the witch meant, the only question is. What is the goal? What are these Elementals? Could there be more mysteries than even Audrey doesn't know? The only way to know is to get some answers from the witch and fast!
Looks like there are a lot of unexpected events that have happened! First being the mysterious group from the Dark Army, the Summoning monster gems, and now the Unknown Witch who seems to know Audrey! If the Witch knows Audrey, it's possible she knows the other goddesses as well! But what are these Elementals? And what sort of Goal is she planning? These answers and more will come in the next part of Modern Dimension Cyberion!
Next Time; Land of the Silver City, Agniratha! Goddess VS Cyber Machines!