Author's note: Hello! Chapter 8 is here, please read and review! They're much appreciated. Enjoy
Chapter 8
Pinnacle of the tower
Ashton and the others winded their way through the worst maze yet. Leon and Ashton worried over how Celine was doing, and Precis and Rena worried over how they were going to defeat this enemy on their own. They came to a large flight of stairs and they started ascending them. They opened the door at the very top and were greeted by blinding white light. They entered further and the light subsided, into a room that was slightly darker than normal. They saw a large spherical object at the very end of the room, and a figure in white stood staring at it. His red hair was down his back, looking quite messy. He turned around to face the party.
"Tsk, tsk. I see we have lost some friends, no?" He said. Ashton stepped forward and pointed one of his short swords at him.
"Ha! That's what you think! They're perfectly fine. It's you who should be worried," Ashton shouted. Precis and Rena winced, as they did not think this a good idea.
"Well, well. This coming from the guy who never gets anything right. In reality, you're a bumbling coward with no skills," Indaelcio said. Ashton tried to argue back, but Precis stopped him.
"And who else do we have? Ah, the Nedian brought up on that worthless planet we demolished. And now she's here, all alone, without her prince to save her, as what usually happens," Indaelcio said. Rena growled, looking angry.
"And next we have a girl who messes with machines, considered a freak among her brethren. Doesn't seem to act her own age either. A truly worthless being," Indaelcio laughed. Precis just gave a light noise of contempt and ignored him.
"And finally, an arrogant brat who thinks he knows it all, but in reality is a big baby and can't fight a battle without whining about it. Pathetic," Indaelcio said. Leon got a little angry and sent gremlins after him. Indaelcio dodged and laughed.
Precis and Ashton started the attack, attacking with all they had. Indaelcio countered their attacks and sent them flying. But they refused to give in. Leon chanted spells from his book and Rena kept them all intact.
"DAEMON'S GATE!" Leon shouted. It didn't do much damage, as Indaelcio recovered quickly.
"Damn. What the hell are we supposed to do? This is useless," Ashton said.
"But we can't give up without a fight," Precis said, dodging another attack. But while doing this, she did not realise that that was a doppelganger. Indaelcio came up behind her and went to strike. His arm was caught deftly by Chisato, who had skimmed in here at the last minute. Precis opened her eyes and saw that Bowman and Chisato were attacking Indaelcio alongside Ashton.
"Bowman! How did you get here?" Precis shouted, as she joined in the fight.
"Well, with a hand from a new ally, Chisato and Noel were awakened and of course, we couldn't let you have all the glory," Bowman laughed. Precis saw that some rocks were being thrown at Indaelcio. She looked back and saw Ryo throwing them from the sidelines.
"Wow, so they're on our team now?" Precis asked. Bowman nodded and they carried on fighting.
"LIGHT CROSS!"
"FOEHN!" Rena and Noel shouted, as a wave of mist and darkness came pouring down on Indaelcio, with shiny light crosses sparkled around him. It did not have much affect, but it did break his concentration, stopping a large attack from occurring. But their luck was running short. They tried their hardest to do lots of damage, but there was a long way to go. Indaelcio looked ready to unleash a powerful move.
"I cannot imagine how you managed to get past Cyril. With this weak a power, not even recruiting a few new people has helped you out much, has it? Well, you could always run away. I'm in a good mood today, so I'll let you go without hurting you. What do you say?" Indaelcion asked.
"Never!" Celine shouted. She ran in and had her staff at the ready. Opera and Ernest, along with Aniki ran in after her and the two former took up battle positions, while the latter stayed at the edge of the battle, gathering some large objects to throw at the enemy.
"Celine! You're back!" Ashton shouted.
"Yes, darlings! Now let's defeat this jerk and get out of here. This is not very good for my hair," Celine replied. Opera and Ernest battled as normal and everyone was more motivated now. Celine, Leon, Rena and Noel gathered and started chanting a spell. Ashton also seemed to be mumbling some words. The air in the room seemed to tense up and energy seemed to be gathering around the spell casters.
"STAR FLARE!"
"MAGNUM TORNADO!"
"NORTHERN CROSS!"
"SOUTHERN CROSS!"
"EXTINCTION!" Rena, Noel, Ashton, Celine and Leon shouted. Darkness filled the room, making it look void. It was circling around Indaelcio, who couldn't move at all. A cross of stars descended noisily from above and an ice star shaped shiny object came from below. Dancing stars of flame ascended and joined Celine's attack and a tornado twisted these together creating a force that had never been seen before the black quilted the blinding twinkles of light and they all compressed around Indaelcio, until an explosion of stars occurred.
Indaelcio was left looking very weak. But he still got up. This surprised everyone, as that attack should have finished him, as they thought. He turned to the large stone behind him and weakly started to beckon it.
"Come…Filia. We shall start this early," he said, arms raised. But the stone did nothing.
"What?! Where are the vital components?" Indaelcio asked, angrily. He turned swiftly and, as he thought, the two thieves who were watching from the sidelines were holding some of his instruments. He got very angry and started flying towards them, but slower than normal. But Claude and Dias appeared in front of them.
"Oh, no you don't. KUU HA ZAN!" Claude and Dias shouted. Blades of blue wind criss-crossed Indaelcio and Indaelcio plummeted backwards and fell to the floor. He was barely holding on anymore, blood dripping from his mouth. Claude and Dias went forward and readied their swords to strike again. Indaelcio looked up at them with a mad look in his eyes.
"Hehehe, you think you can beat me? Never," he said. Strong gusts blew Claude, Dias and the rest of the party back into the wall. He was chanting words to summon something. The room lit up with fiery red. Two chakrams flew around the room and homed in on Indaelcio. They were on fire and they hit him with a terrible force, which flew him into the far wall.
Blood spattered the wall and created what looked like wings behind him. He looked dreadful, like he was feeling sorry for himself.
"I will….be back….just you wait…" he said, before giving up the ghost. Everyone stared at Indaelcio for a while, until they heard the sound of someone collapsing. They turned their heads, to find Ariette half-conscious on the floor. Claude ran to her and held her head up.
Author's note: Yeah, if I didn't change the other chapters that had circlets in, then please just imagine that I did. They're chakrams, I didn't know what they were called when I first wrote this.
