Chapter 33
Female wyverns are more aggressive then male wyverns after all.


CLANG!

Marth and Nacien clashed together and locked swords, and then Marth pulled back his sword before jabbing at him rapidly. "Wyvern Claw!"

Nacien was able to block every single hit using his sword and then quickly pulling back his sword, he swiped it at the air before him and released a burst of dark energy that Marth quickly evaded by hopping back. "Flux!" Nacien said as he fired a dark crescent projectile at him. Right when the projectile was about to hit him, Marth allowed himself to fall back and it went over him instead, and he did a back flip to get back on track.

Nacien was going to run over to attack him but then Setsuna jumped in front of him and locked swords with him. "He's not the only one you're fighting!" she said.

"Two opponents won't be that hard for me," Nacien claimed. "I have fought in battles against several hundreds of people at once and won without a scratch. Two will definitely be no sweat at all!"

Setsuna pushed against him and swiped with her sword in large arcs and struck his blade multiple times. Nacien then thrust his sword forward and she quickly moved her head aside to avoid it and swung at his legs. He leaped out of the way and moved to a safer location however, and the moment he landed, he saw Marth running towards him. "If you think you can take us out easily just because there's only to of us compared to the hundred-man army you've faced in the past, you're wrong!" he said. "We'll show you that facing against the two of us is equivalent to facing an army of thousands!"

"Oh really? Then I would set a new record by defeating you two," he said with a confident smile.

"Shield Breaker!" Marth pulled his back into the air and slammed it down hard on Nacien who held up with sword to block it. Marth pulled back his sword and then thrust it forward and Nacien used the flat part of his blade to block it away. Infusing his sword with dark energy, he did a horizontal swipe at Marth who ducked down quick to avoid getting him.

When he swung his sword low to hit Nacien on the feet, Nacien jumped into the air and pointed it sword down to ready to plunge the dark blade down onto his head. However, Setsuna came jumping at him front the front to stop him and Nacien quickly blocked her incoming attack and was pushed back through the air before landing on his feet.

Setsuna landed and then rushed at Nacien who quickly held up his sword to block the incoming attack, but instead, Setsuna sheathed her sword and then ran past him without doing anything. "What?" he wondered.

"Shinmeiryuu, Raging Sakura Slash!" She suddenly unsheathed her sword and spun around to give a quick swipe across the air. In doing so, pink flower petals spread out all around the place and they struck Nacien in the body as if they were bullets.

"What the?!" he desperately tried to block the incoming flower petals the best he can and while he was doing so, Setsuna fired a wind blade at him.

"Air-Cutting Flash!"

Nacien quickly leaped out of the way and barely avoided the attack and Setsuna ran towards him and did a roundhouse kick across his face.

KICK!

"URGH!!!" Nacien tumbled back onto the floor and when he looked up, Setsuna jumped up into the air with her sword raised up high and ready to fall onto her.

"Steel-Shat..."

Note: It's supposed to be Steel-Shattering Slash, but don't you find the incomplete Steel Shat to be hilarious? If you know what 'shat' means…

WHACK!!!

"YAAAA!!!" She was suddenly struck by something in the side of the body and crashed onto the floor instead, and her attacker turned out to be Nacien's wyvern.

"Good going, Nancy," Nacien said to his wyvern.

"Nancy? A female wyvern?" Marth asked curiously.

"What's wrong with that?" Nacien said as he stood back up. "Female wyverns are more aggressive than males. After all, they need to be strong and fierce enough in order to protect their young ones, and it applies to same when protecting their master. If you try to hurt me, you are facing her wrath as well!"

"Whatever, it's not like some flying reptile is able to stop me from getting to you!" Marth said, and then he took off in his direction.

"If your wyvern is fighting, then that would make the fight fairer because it's now two-on-two!" Setsuna said.

Both the sword users ran at Nacien who simply held up his sword which was glowing with a purple light. "But even without the help of Nancy, I can still defeat the likes of you," he claimed. "I do admit the girl has some neat tricks that caught me off guard. Dark Scenery!" He lifted his sword high into the air then the purple light grew brighter, and then instantly, a dome-shaped darkness spread out all around him and filled up the whole place.

The two of them stopped and looked around desperately. "What the?! It's an absolute darkness!" Marth said. He felt around to try and see if he could touch something, but it was so dark that not only could he not see anything, he can't even see himself. "What is this?!"

"Dark Scenery is a move that creates a dark surrounding for about a minute in order to block out people's sight," said the voice of Nacien. "During this period, only I get to see clearly where my opponents are, and because of this, I can kill my victims without them knowing anything at all. What can you do in a situation like this? Heheheheh!

"Come out at once!" Marth yelled. Suddenly, a slash mark appeared across his the side of waist as he was cut by something. "Ah!"

"If you cannot see me, you cannot do anything!" said Nacien's voice. "I can see you as clear as light and even as we are speaking, I'm going to cut you up real good!"

"Dammit!" Marth quickly swung in the direction that he got cut in but didn't hit anything. He then slashed in every direction in hope of trying to hit Nacien or block any incoming blows.

"Hahaha! As powerful as you are, you are totally helpless in darkness like this! I am now like an owl looking at you from the pitch darkness of the night! You are nothing but a prey waiting to be caught!" laughed Nacien. "Now I'm going to... BOOF!!!" Nacien felt a shoe planting into the side of his face and he was knocked down to the floor.

"Unfortunately, trying to blind me using this won't be very useful," Setsuna's voice said. "For a demon like me, I can sense the presence of people without using my eyes. While I may not be able to see you, I can figure out where you might be just by your life presence!"

Not too soon after she said this, the darkness slowly faded away. "Good… It's clear as daylight again," Marth said.

"That's quite a surprise…" Nacien said as he stood up. "So the girl is not human! Not like it matters since you're all going to slain by me anyway, and I never bothered remembering the face of people that I killed."

"Well, you better remember our faces before we knock that smug look off your face," Marth said to him.

Gripping their swords tightly in their hand, Marth and Setsuna charge at him from both sides. "Dark Firewall!" Nacien said loudly, and with a full 360-degree spin, a ring of black fire was formed around him and they both quickly stopped in their positions.

"What the?! It's that same move from that time!" Marth said, referring to when he helped Fawful escape.

"I can just fly over it!" Setsuna said. Sprouting her elegant white angelic wings out from her back, she took off into the air and flew over the ring of black fire and descended towards Nacien for the kill.

"So you can fly too! Though not as graceful as the way Nancy flies," Nacien said. "Let me tell you something. The Black Firewall isn't only served as a defense. By absorbing the fire back into my sword, I can perform a powerful attack with it!" His blade glowed with purple light and the fire was immediately pulled towards it, and then he swung his sword at Setsuna to shoot forth a blast of black fire. "Luna!"

"What?!" The black fire engulfed her all over the body and she was blown high up into the air before falling back down, where she rolled around frantically to put out the flames. "YAAAA!!!"

"Hey you!" Marth charged at Nacien from behind and he quickly turned to block an attack from him.

As they clashed blades against each other, Nacien swung down his sword and shot out a dark crescent. "Flux!"

Marth barely stepped aside to avoid it and suffered a minor caught on the right arm, but it was no issue to him as he unleashed a cutting air blade at Nacien, who swung his dark sword at the air blade to eliminate it. "How would you like it you face the same attack!" he said. "Black Firewall!" He slammed down his sword and sent forth a stream of black fire that Marth was able to get out of the way. Nacien then absorbed the fire into his blade and then shot a huge blast of fire in his direction. "Luna!"

"Dammit! No place to run!" Marth gasped, and then the fire crashed into him.

"Haha! Burned to crisp, I bet!" Nacien laughed. When the fire moved farther back and disintegrated, Marth was nowhere in sight, but then he popped out from the door on the floor. "What?!"

"Phew… Good thing I happened to be standing on top of this…" he sighed with relief, and then he climbed back up.

Konoka poked her head out from the door and asked, "How's Secchan doing?" She looked around and was shocked to see Setsuna lying on the floor burned up. "SECCHAN!!!" She immediately rushed over to her and held her up by her back in concern. "Seccan! Are you all right? I'll heal you instantly!" And she got out her magical artifacts and tried to heal her all she could.

Setsuna opened her eyes to look at her and said, "Ojou-sama, you shouldn't be here! It's too dangerous! Get back in inside!"

"I'm worried about you, Secchan!" she replied with a face that was about to cry. "Please don't push yourself too hard! If you get way too hurt, I fear I won't be able to heal you!"

"Don't worry about me. Fighting and protecting you is my duty, so to get hurt is something that I must go through and endure, but don't worry, I will scare or disappoint you by dying here!"

Meanwhile, Marth and Nacien continued to clash blades against each other. Marth swiped with sword at an intense rate and Nacien was desperately swinging his sword left to right to block. "Dolphin Splash!" Marth yelled, and he delivered a powerful horizontal swipe that managed to knock the sword of Nacien's hand.

"My Dark Rune!" He cried. He quickly ducked underneath another swipe from Marth and ran for his sword to pick it up. Marth ran up to him and was about to give another blow when suddenly the wyvern swooped down and knocked him onto the floor.

"Ow! That wyvern!" he growled.

Nacien whistled loudly and the wyvern did a u-turn in midair and returned to him. "Let's show them our real power, Nancy!" he said as he hopped onto the back of the wyvern, and then she took off into the air.

"Riding on your pet now?" Marth asked.

"I'm a wyvern lord, so it is my specialty to fight riding on top of one! Now you're going to be the one crying in the end! Get ready to meet your maker!"

The wyvern pulled back into the air and roared before diving for Marth. He quickly rolled out of the way when the wyvern swooped down to hit him and then she went back into the air again. "If it's a fighting that should be done on air," Setsuna said as she flew after the wyvern, "leave it to me!"

"Heheh! Wyvern lords are the strongest when in air!" Nacien said. "Do you think you can take on me while I am airborne? Flux!" He slashed against the air to fire a dark crescent projectile. Setsuna easily evaded by flying out of the way at a fast speed and managed to make it back of Nacien in a blink of an eye. "So fast?!"

The wyvern spun around and Nacien quickly blocked a swipe from her in time and then the wyvern moved back through the air and then opened her to release a cloud of poison gas. "What's that gas? Better avoid it!" Setsuna thought, and she quickly flew out of the way.

"Wyverns are capable of breathing corrosive gas, so it was a good idea that you avoided it," Nacien said. "There is also one thing that you should know about wyverns, and that is… they find great pleasure in attacking young women like you!"

"Uh?"

The wyvern bared her fangs and then flew at Setsuna at a fast speed. Setsuna quickly flew out of the way but the wyvern lashed her tail at her and struck her across the air in the body. "Ow!" Then the wyvern flew at her with her mouth wide open, ready to bite her. "Air-Cutting Flash!" Setsuna quickly launched an air blade at her but the wyvern turned upwards the last moment and evaded the attack and then dived back down at her. Setsuna quickly swung her sword at the wyvern horizontally, but to her surprise, the wyvern chomped down on the flat sides of the blade tightly and Setsuna ended up getting pushed to the floor below. "YAAA!"

CRASH!!

"Secchan!!" Konoka cried.

After Konoka pinned down the floor, the wyvern spit away the sword that was in her mouth and then crunched down hard onto her right shoulder. "YAAAAAAAA!!!!"

"Hey you!" Marth shouted as he ran towards the wyvern to save Setsuna.

"Do not disturb Nancy while she is having her fun!" Nacien said to him. "Black Firewall!" He swung his sword and released set up a firewall in front of Marth to prevent him from coming any further.

"Damn!"

With Setsuna still in her mouth, the wyvern lifted her into the air and shook her violently to increase the pain in her shoulder and then hurled her to the side of the tower. "Seccan!" Konoka cried.

"Don't come here!" Konoka said to her as she slowly got back up despite the pain. "I can handle this! You don't have to worry about me!"

The wyvern flew at her with mouth wide open to attack her. Setsuna swiftly rolled aside to dodge the attack and then the wyvern turned around again for the second attempt. This time Setsuna leaped over the wyvern right when she was about to be hit and then to Nacien's surprise, caught his face in between her legs (as well as giving him a view of underneath her skirt). "Eh?!"

"Shinmeiryuu, Falling Petal!" Using all her strength, Setsuna leaped up into the air taking Nacien by the head along with her and did about three graceful cartwheel spins before falling back down and slamming the villain on the floor violently.

SLAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!"

"Whoa…" Marth exclaimed.

Setsuna let go of her legs and then hopped back to a safer spot as Nacien got back up. "Ow… That was unexpected… I've never taken such a hit like this before…" he growled. "I'm starting to get annoyed by you guys!"

"Now who's looking down on us?" Marth said to him. "Let's see you put another smug look on your face again!"

"Don't you get too full of yourself! You have seen what I'm capable of yet!" He turned to the wyvern and said to her, "Nancy, you deal with that girl and give her a torture of your life! I'll deal with the guy myself!"

"You're asking for it!" Marth said, and he charged forward with his sword pulled back and then thrust it forward.

Nacien quickly blocked the incoming blow with his sword and then pulled back his sword before slamming it down onto the floor to sent forth a wave of black fire that Marth evaded by leaping aside. Nacien then quickly absorbed the fire into his sword and was about to launch it at Marth, but Marth dashed past him and slashed him in the waist in the process to interrupt his attack. "Ga!" But Nacien spun around and pointed his sword at him and shot out the black fire anyway. "Luna!"

"What?!" Marth was unable to avoid this one and was engulfed by the fire and blown back. "Ugh!"

"Hahaha! How'd you like that?" Nacien laughed. "Uh?" To his surprise, he saw Marth running at him despite his body on fire.

"Dark Shield Breaker!" he shouted, and then he delivered a powerful overhead slash onto Nacien's body.

SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!

"GUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!" With a burning wound slashed diagonally across his chest, Nacien soared backwards and tumbled onto his back.

"Thanks for the extra firepower," Marth said to him.

Meanwhile, the wyvern charged at Setsuna to attack her but she jumped out of the way in time. The wyvern turned to her again though and attacked her nonstop, trying to crunch her with her sharp fangs. Setsuna avoided the wyvern as she jabbed her head forward to bite her and then gave the wyvern a swift kick to the face before hopping back. "Better get my sword first!" she thought.

The wyvern, angry at being kicked, roared and then leaped forward. Setsuna quickly jumped straight up and planted her feet on top of the wyvern's head before bouncing across the air and landing behind her, but the wyvern swiped her tail at her legs and made her trip onto the floor. "Whoa!"

The wyvern spun around and was about to bring down her jaws onto her head when suddenly Konoka came running up to the wyvern and gave a slash across her face. "Don't hurt Secchan!"

SLASH!

The wyvern shrieked in pain when she was slashed underneath the eyes and pulled back. "Ojou-sama!" Setsuna said.

"Secchan! Here's your sword! I got it back for you!" Konoka said, handing her the sword.

"Thanks, but you better move back now!"

"I want to heal you first! Look at your shoulder! It's badly wounded!" She was about to use her artifacts to heal her but the wyvern roared and came charging at them again.

"Watch out, Ojou-same!" Setsuna gasped. She quickly pushed Konoka aside and then gripping her sword tightly in her hand, charged at the wyvern and swung her sword horizontally. "Shinmeiryuu, Light Speed Slicer!"

SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!!

The wyvern was slashed across the body, all the way from its head to the back, when Setsuna dashed past her with her sword, and thus the wyvern screamed in agony from the fatal blow and then finally collapsed onto the floor.

Seeing his wyvern defeated, Nacien said in shock, "NANCY!!! NOOOO!!!"

"Heheh! Your pet is down for the count!" Marth said with a smirk. He turned to Setsuna and gave her a thumb up and she simply smiled in return and sheathed her sword.

"Wow! That was cool, Secchan!" Konoka exclaimed happily

"DAMN YOU!!!!" Nacien shouted angrily. "I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU ALL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO NANCY!!!" He was going to run in Setsuna's direction but Marth got in front of him and stopped him by the sword.

"I am your opponent!" he said.

"Then you shall die first! Eclipse!" Nacien plunged his sword into the floor and dark electricity started to come out from the blade and dome-shaped barrier was formed around Marth.

"What?!" Marth was inside the barrier and he was then shocked by high voltage electricity that was black in color. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" And then he was sliced across the body by Nacien and sent flying out of the barrier.

"Take that! Eclipse will form a barrier around me that damages everyone inside it asides from me. While they are stunned by the attack, I will take my chance to attack them!" he explained.

"Mr. Marth! Are you all right?" Konoka called to him.

"Let me help you, Marth-san!" Setsuna said to him, ready to unsheathe her sword again.

"Don't bother!" he told them. "I can deal with this myself!"

"The next move will surely kill you for sure!" Nacien claimed as he pulled back his sword in to the air. "This move is a deadly one as it will drain the life of its victim, making him equivalent to being dead afterwards! The energy of my opponents will also be brought over to me to heal me! I'm going to use it at full power so I can drain yourself life completely until you die! Nosferatu!!!" And he swung her sword a spiraling dark energy beam was shot forward.

"Be careful!" Konoka cried.

"Like I'm going to be scared of something like that!" Marth said. "I never back down from any sort of threat my enemies throw at me!" He then took a step back and raised his sword up into the air, and then he suddenly took off at the incoming energy beam and plunged his sword forward so hard that the air around it was basically formed into an arrow surrounding the tip of the blade. "Critical Hit!"

To Nacien's surprise, Marth plowed through the energy beam using his sword and never got hit by it. "He pierced through my Nosferatu?!?!"

SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!

"GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!" After getting struck in the body by the powerful charging attack, he was knocked up high into the air from a fatal blow, and then he fell back down again onto the floor with a thud.

THUD!

Setsuna and Konoka were amazed at Marth's finishing move and they ran up to him as he was sheathing his sword. "Wow! You're so cool, Mr. Marth!" Konoka exclaimed.

"You've defeated him! Your skills really very strong!" Setsuna said.

"That was nothing," Marth told them. "Anyway, now that this is done with, I think we should go meet up with the others and see what our next step is."

"Wait! Let me heal you two first!" Konoka said. "I may not be able to fully heal you, but only the wounds that you received in the past three minutes. Quick, before time runs out!"

TO BE CONTINUED

Another opponent down and I think it's pretty well done too! And I made up the wyvern's name myself too.