Chapter 9
The "Evil" revealed
"Are you ready to battle, Angel?" Dante asked as he brought out his massive two hand- sword. Dante was about in his late 20's and looked to be about 5'11. He wore a red jacket over a white t-shirt.
"Yes, I'm ready to do this." Angel responded as he summoned his scythe and he and Dante jumped down into the arena." Something evil is coming to destroy us." The ominous warning he felt was strange. Was it a premonition of the future? He couldn't tell at all.
"I suspect you're getting the same feeling as I am." Dante responded as they started to attack each other instantly.
"That's another entry into the absurd files." Ace responded as he looked at Vanessa.
"I kind of expected the Author to put in his two cents right now." Vanessa responded." However it doesn't matter."
"Holy smash!" Dante responded as his sword glowed and he slammed it against the ground… but failed miserably.
"Darkbringer X3!" Angel shouted. The Two tangs launched out independent and struck Dante multiple times. "That should take care of you for now."
"I'm going to admit it, you're good at this." Dante complimented." Were basically a sideshow in this chapter to whatever big threat comes."
"Thanks, and that's probably the truth but who cares, Demon Slayer!" Angel shouted, pissing his opponent off.
"Got any two's, Reapera?" Clara asked as she held her cards. She and Reapera were passing the time by playing Go fish. It would probably could have been a much more interesting game of Go fish had they had a third player, but Celestia refused to join them at all costs.
"No, and we need to get going right now." Reapera answered, throwing her cards down in a fury and grabbed Celestia. Celestia then woke up from her catnap and slashed Reapera with her claws. This caused Celestia to fall to the ground because Reapera released her grip off of Celestia.
"Come on! Let's get going!" Reapera shouted
"Did you really need to wake me up from my catnap?" Celestia responded, not happy at all about being woken up.
"Why do we need to get going?" Clara questioned as she looked at Reapera.
"The Angels our coming to kill our masters." Reapera explained. "Ever since "The "Incident", things have changed. Even the Angels have fallen."
"How come you still remember all that?" Clara asked as she grabbed her wand longswords. "And who are the Angels?"
"That's funny, since you were there too, daughter of Aura." Reapera cryptically whispered as the three of them ran out of Aerith's house and headed in the direction of the stadium.
"Aura…" Clara thought as she ran…
Flashback…
"You will take care of him, right?" Aura asked as she looked at her daughter, Clara. She looked to be in her mid 20's and about 6'3. She wore an sapphire blue dress similar to Clara's and matching blue stiletto heels on her feet.
"Yes mother, I will take care of Ace for however long it will take until I can return to you." Clara answered as she looked at Ace." Do you think he will understand?"
"Only time will tell, Clara." Aura explained as a man with spiky red hair and goggles motioned her to follow him. Her Mother's calm voice" Find the black cat and we will meet again." She then hugged her daughter and followed the man…
Flashback end…
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"I think I see something coming." Ace responded and equipped his katanas as he noticed something up in the sky. "I've seen them before, but I can't remember why. But that doesn't matter right now."
"I see it also." Vanessa responded and reequipped her cutlasses.
"Let's do this!" Aerith and Nina shouted, equipping their weapons in the process.
"I believe it's time to stop this fight." Dante responded only for an arrow to go through the heart and killed him instantly. The one who shot the arrow was right above them. It was a young girl in her late teens and looked to be 5'8. She wore a white gown and a silver helmet with a gold cross on it that covered the front of her face. All that could be seen of her smooth slightly pale skin was her red lips and her blonde hair along with the eight wings on her back. She wore white stiletto heels and one white opera glove. Behind her were similar people except there helmets didn't have gold crosses on them.
"I'm guessing that one is the leader of them." Ace responded as he pointed at the one in front.
"You all must now be destroyed for your crimes, humans!" The "leader" of the angels shouted.
"What are these crimes you speak of?" Aerith shouted, with her falchion already in hand. At that moment, an angel broke the formation and was heading to Aerith as other angels were busy murdering the other competitors that weren't part of the main cast.
"Uh… To tell you the truth, I have no Idea and I was told to make something up." The "Leader" of the Angels added as The Hunter each preformed a facepalm. By that point, an angel reached Aerith but this angel looked a whole lot different from the other angels. Her skin was silver instead of the usual white. She wore the same thing as the other Angels but her hair was more like wire than actual hair. Aerith was about to eat a chocolate cupcake as the angel approached
"In exchange for that cupcake I will do whatever you ask." The robotic angel asked as it looked at the cupcake.
"You will become my partner and your name will be Lilith." Aerith answered and gave the Angel the cupcake.
"It's a deal!" Lilith added and made her bow appear and started to shoot down some of the angels.
"Let's do this!" Ace shouted." Dragon Katana Flame Blast X3!" Then he scorched a few angels.
"This isn't worth it to us at all!" Five competitors that were still alive shouted and ran out of the stadium.
"Who is your master?!" Nina asked as she stabbed at an angel.
"Our master is The Digital Queen." The Angel responded and then realized what she just said." I wasn't supposed to tell you that."
"Well you'll be defeated anyway!" Nina shouted and launched a few energy butterfly swords at the Angel that responded.
"Fireball!" Clara responded and launched a red ball of flames and scorched multiple angels!
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"Just give up already!" Chaos responded as she slashed at the Author. "Even if you defeat me, you will hunt my acolyte and I down to end this!"
"Then I will!" The author responded and slammed Chaos back into the rift and Hera duct-taped it shut!
"Now what do we do?" Valia asked as she sipped her margarita.
"We hunt Chaos and her acolytes down, across all sorts of universes." The Author responded.
"Sounds like fun!" Hera shouted as she, Valia and the Author sat back down.
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"We've repelled all the Angels!" Angel responded as they ran over to the "leader" of the Angels. The only reason they were able to repel them was because of T-Rex deciding he wanted some of the action and ate most of the Angels.
"You won't win whatsoever!" The Angel responded as Ace stabbed her with both of his katanas. "There is reason for your action, isn't there?"
"I'm sorry, but I cannot allow you to be trapped any longer." Ace explained as he removed the katanas from her body. The mask on her disappeared revealing that she had been transformed. Her face was that of a young teenager not an older one. A girl with so much life turned into a puppet.
"Thank you, you have finally released me from this prison." The angel responded as she turned to dust.
"Well this is an interesting turn of events." Ace responded as they headed back to their seats.
"The next match will be Aerith vs. Sephiroth!" Vanessa announced as Aerith got up from her seat.
"Lilith, stay here." Aerith explained as she jumped down into the arena as she equipped her twin falchions.
"You won't be a challenge at all for me." Sephiroth whispered." Release me."
"3…2…1…, fight!" Vanessa shouted as Aerith's falchions struck Sephiroth's rapiers!
"At least the Author tried to be original." Ace responded.
"Thank you, the compliment helps." The Author answered.
"Techno slash X3!" Aerith shouted and slashed multiple times at her opponent as a mini version of Lilith copied her actions.
"Release me from prison." Sephiroth whispered as he instantly defeated Aerith with a series of quick slashes. "And the truth will come."
"Screw you!" Nina taunted and then flipped him off. In response to that, Sephiroth did the same thing to her.
"You can avoid do all those other battles, Author. Let's just get to the final battle." Sephiroth added.
"Sounds good to me." The Author answered. "In that case, Ace vs Sephiroth!"
"3…2…1…, fight!" Vanessa reluctantly shouted as Ace equipped his katanas and motioned for Clara to follow him. Ace then summoned both of his spirit dragons as he entered an offensive stance.
"You will never defeat me!" Sephiroth shouted as Dai and Miyako scorched him. This caused the armor surrounding him to weaken a little bit.
"Master, if we destroy his armor he will be defeated!" Dai explained.
"Are you sure?" Ace asked as he noticed The Black Cat was sitting on top of the stadium.
"I'm counting on you." The Black Cat telepathically whispered to him.
"Then I'll try my hardest to catch you." Ace thought back.
"That is what I love to see." The Black Cat answered. Her calm and loving felt familiar to Ace, but he couldn't tell where he remembered it from.
"Then let's do this!" Ace shouted as he slashed at his opponent, causing cracks to appear in his opponent's armor. Clara then started slashing at Sephiroth causing more cracks to appear. This also caused a tornado of chocolate to rain on the spectators. Ace
"Hidden Art: Dragon katana Inferno!" Ace shouted as he glowed and launched 10 mini spirit dragons at Sephiroth, which then slashed and burned him. This then caused all the armor on Sephiroth to fall off, revealing a girl around Ace's age and height. She wore a gray t-shirt and matching skirt with combat boots to go with it.
"I'm sorry for what I have done to you and your friends, Ace." The girl apologized.
"The winner of this tournament is… Ace!" Vanessa announced as the stadium mostly emptied by that point.
"What is your name?" Ace asked as he and Clara sheathed their weapons.
"My name is Kelly, daughter of The Digital Queen." Kelly answered as she sheathed her rapiers.
"I guess you have something to do with our friend's murders." Nina asked.
"Yes, but somebody controlled me to do those things without questioning why I'm doing it." Kelly added." A year has passed since their deaths. The only way I can think of repaying my sins is by joining your group."
"I'm fine with that." Ace explained. "Let's head back to my house and see what she has to say about whatever she does." Then the black cat teleported away…
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"Well, the tournament is over!" The Author shouted." This means I won the bet!"
"Later we will start our hunt?" Hera asked as she sharpened her swords.
"Probably, then things get interesting." Valia answered as she replaced the blade part of her scythe.
"This story might be coming to the end, but the Hunter's story is just merely beginning…" The Author whispered and then drank some punch.