Even with the chaotic battle on the ground, the uncontrollable power from Awru, Eci, Edge and Zez was getting stronger by the second. This was the time when Mina went and assault Awru. Tackling him into a hug. His eyes went back to normal, the ruby red eyes looked over at the girl.
" Mina.. ? " he saw his other comrades still in their former state. Couldn't do anything, they flew to each different Gaia Tree Vertri. Eci went to the left, Zez to the right and Edge at the middle. Where they are now, the others are still shielding behind the giant root supported by Griff.
The monstrous tree shot at Eci, who was glowing in blue and white light. All of its attack misses, with a single pierce, the Gaia Tree Vertri disintegrated. At Zez's side, the Gaia Tree countered his lightning, which was coming from his light and yellow aura. He eventually cuts down the tree into half with a lightning bolt fell from the sky, burning the tree into crisp.
Awru was covering his eye from Edge's overwhelming aura. The warrior kid turned around and faced Awru. He choked him and started to lift him up mid-air. Mina was gasping loudly as the red headed man was gasping for air. " Kid! " Griff said while moving the root aside. He charges his sword with fire and slashed toward Edge.
The attack was stopped by a single finger. The next thing happened was that Griff was knocked back by a strong unseen force. Edge continued to choke Awru single-handed while Mina was knocking him lightly.
" Stop it! " Ii screamed, she raised her sword above her head and knock it on Edge's head. Surprisingly, his eyes was swirling with several birds flying around his head. Awru took deep breath with Mina trying to comfort him. He turned his head around to saw the other two rampaging at the battlefield below. The Corrupted units that everyone had problems dealing with was solved in an instant.
The monster were cut down one by one with the hero gaining his focus, " If they kept using their powers like that, they might end up destroying the village! " Awru shouted, Mina had a scarred face while Ii gritted her teeth.
" What should we do...? " Kuhla asked to herself, Griff stood up and scanned the village, there were two more monster to finish off before they kill the Gaia Tree Vertri they were on.
This is when the man came out of the ruins, it was Leon. " This is troublesome... but I guess I can't help it. " the man raises his sword above his head and began chanting.
" Time and Space... "
" Heed my call... "
" Lent me the power to slow the time, tighten the atmosphere... "
" グローバルフリーズ ! "
After he had done chanting, the two stopped, everything starts to go slow. Except for Leon and Awru for some reason. " W... What happen? " he asked, still confused about the situation.
" I just slowed time from 1 second to 0.00000001 second. " his voice was dull, almost sounded like he was some sort of a monster. " Go*cough* While you can... use the power inside you to unleash your hidden power. "
" My... secret power? " he nodded. " That sword of yours... it has a name right? " the hero was surprised about this, but this was no time for asking questions and wasting time. " Go! I won't hold this world for long or I'm going to disappear! " he taunted Awru to hurry up. He was doubting to himself about unleashing his secret powers or not, he had cleared his mind with nothing and slowly un-sheath the giant sword.
" This time... let me borrow your power... Igrem! " his sword lit up on fire, as so as his whole body, he was screaming in pain with the slowed down friends of his cried at him. Griff was going to knock the sword away from him but his body and the whole air was heavy for him.
Awru Yilfina was then covered in sea of flames, what seemingly like wings spread behind him. It was made out of purely fire, he then dashed toward Eci, leaving a strong gust of wind behind. Eci wasn't slow down that much, at least her aim are easily dodged for the red haired hero.
He pushed her to the ground and landed like a meteorite. Her eyes were shining bright light, not even her iris can be seen. Just when about Awru going to tie her a lightning bolt struck his back. It was Zez, he was smirking like he never did. He dashed through Leon's Global Freeze and had threw Awru away from her.
Things were about to get harder, with Leon losing his magic, his power stopped working. Eci and Zez glared at Awru before simultaneously slice and diced him. The other couldn't help him because he was fighting mid- air.
With blood coming out of his mouth, he looked straight at them into the eyes. They weren't their own self, they are sleeping inside of their hearts while their powers goes out to rampage. With an enchanted dash, he tackled them both and hold them tightly.
" Eci! Zez! Listen to me! You aren't yourself right now! Wake up! " all the two did was struggle to get free while Awru was enduring the pain coming from their attacks.
He couldn't cure them, he doesn't even know how to do it. " All I can do is fight! fight! and only fight! But where is the medic when they need some?! " this is when they both knocked him away. Eci channel her power onto her sword and thrusts through Awru's heart. He coughed out blood and was thrown on the ground.
Zez landed right beside him and stepped him on the stomach, making the flame hero yeld in pain with the blue haired woman watching him suffer. Inside her, the real Eci was trapped in a dormant of ice. " Stop it... stop it! " shs shouted from the inside.
Awru can felt her pulse weakening every second as the lightning warrior smirked in victory. His vision slowly faded away.
...
You can't give up now...
" Huh?.. That voice again... "
Keep on living, my saviour... your live still have more meaning into it...
" My life...? I guess... "
I'll be waiting for you at the Grand Tournament. Oni-
Awru woke up again, his eyes shining brighter than before. Zez's foot had got burned from the heat. He took his feet and heave him to the sky, a *ting* noise was made. Eci readied her longsword in a defensive stance, the warrior charged and the blades collided. He used his force to push her back. Losing her own momentum as he looked her in the eyes and shouted. " ECI! " this is when she snapped back to reality.
" Aw... ru? " she spoke, then fell unconscious. He had put her down somewhere save and set her down. He was planning to go after Zez but suddenly.
Time is up.
An intense pain went through Awru's heart, he clench it with his own arm as the fire starts to fade away from his armor. His shouted was heard throughout the village as he fell flat on the ground.
(FYI- They landed on top of the last Gaia Tree Vertri where his units and the others are. )
Where Zez was... he had landed onto a clear plain field, the anger of the uncontrollable kid risen while two figures slowly approached him. He sent a lightning bolt towards them but it was blocked by a shadow wall, the figure was small while the other was a huge, almost looked barbaric. The small figure had appeared in front of Zez, and lightly touch his forehead. Making his overwhelming power disappeared. As he was falling to the ground, the huge figure had catch him and thrown back to the direction he came from.
Leon was tired and exhausted because of using his strange power. Mina had healed everyone and sat down on the grass. She was worried about Awru and the others, even the citizens of the medium sized village. Edge woke up from his comatose state and sat up normally.
" What happen? "
Griff and the others were surprised by this. " You didn't remember? "
" Nope. In fact, what happened to the other giant trees? "
" They're destroyed. " Kuhla answered. " While Eci and Zez went on a rampage, you almost killed Awru with your own hands. " straightforward with the kid, he was shocked a bit.
" More importantly... " Libera interrupted. " How do we get off this giant tree? "
This time, Rina opened her mouth. " But we have to defeat it first. "
" Umm... can I know where's Awru and the other three? " Ii sighed. " Guess can't be helped. " Ii explained everything that had happened while he was knocked out. He nods and began to adjust his goggles.
" I understand the situation now! " he chirped, stood up and walked off into a direction. " W... Where are you going? " Mina asked.
He turned his head. " Didn't you guys see that? There's a giant castle right over the other side of this giant tree. " he pointed, they focused on where he was pointing, there was an army of soldiers fending off monster just outside the walls. Griff was a bit surprised off Edge's sight to see that far away even though he's just a kid. " I can hear someone crying inside the castle. Wait for me here! "
Libera was just about to stop him but he ran away before she could. Her face puzzled in worried while Kuhla was in deep thought. ' Someone crying in a castle? But none of us can hear anyone crying... '
After climbing a giant root, Edge could see the guards fighting Treants. The tree monster that keep spawning from the ground. A muscular man with a giant hammer killed three of the monster with a single attack. He smirked and pulls out his spear, swinging into the battle with a vine on his hand, while everyone was busy with the Treants, one of the guards lost its weapon and was knocked to the ground.
He yelp for help as the Treants raises its sharp branch to finish him off. This is when Edge jumped and slashed the Treants into half. His face was confused for a moment before the kid took another vine to another and slashed the other Treants while the guards watched in awe. The muscular man was a bit impressed by the kid until one of the vines snapped, one of the Treants took this chance to swat him away like a fly as he was sent into one of the castle's window.
Edge scratched his head in pain as a female gasp can be heard. " Ow!... " he said to himself, this is when he opened his eyes and saw a girl, looks almost like his age wearing a gown with flowery patterns on it. She had green eyes and was wearing a wing-like adornments on her head. Her haired reached down to her feet.
" A- Are you okay? " she asked with a soft, gentle voice wiping her tears away. Edge nod and rested on the wall, closing his eyes. " Who are you? Are you a knight of this castle? " she asked again, his head turned to left and right.
" I'm just a kid. Running away from my family. " her face was shocked for a moment.
" W-Why? "
His eyes were slightly opened. " Cause my family doesn't care about me. They only care about their money. Even after I ran away, they didn't even search for me. Just about a few days ago, they wanted me to marry someone I didn't even know! Heck! I'm still a kid! "
The girl was in deep thought as he said it. " By the way, what's your name? " he suddenly asked, she jolted up a bit before introducing herself.
" O-Oh! I'm Fere Chrysanta. The new princess of Vriksha. " she introuced herself in a formal way, as in by raising her gown a little and bows down a bit. He was buffering for a moment, then he simply replied.
" Oh! Alright, nice to meet you. I'm Edge Oynama. " he took out his hand for her.
Fere jolted a bit before shaking hands with him. He looked around while smiling, " Must be nice living in this castle eh? Mine is just a luxurious bed with lots of kiddies toys. " he said, she looked to her left, motioning a hundreds of toys beside the queen-sized bed.
" What does... "
" I'm a Summoner! "
" Summoner... wait, aren't you a little too young?! " she cried, he was offensive.
" Hey! Then how old are you? "
She embarrassedly said. " 16... " " Hah! I'm one year older than you! " She looks away while hiding her face with her hands.
" By the way, how did this giant castle got stuck on top of this giant floating tree? " as soon as Edge mentioned this, Fere immediately asked.
" Giant floating tree? " " Yeah. " " You mean... we are high in the sky? " "That's right. "
She gasped in happiness, for some odd reason. She skipped and jumped around happily making the kid sweat drop at this scene. " Uhh... are you okay? "
She turned her shining eyes toward him and grasp his hand. " Am I okay?! Of course I'm okay! We're in wonderland now! The place where we could meet Fairies whenever we want! " she chirped, dragging Edge to skipped and jumped along with her as they went downstairs, passed by every guards that saw them. The guards were alerted and chased after them, assuming Edge a kidnapper.
" Let's go Edge-kun! To the Magic Land! " Edge didn't have time to argue with her because of the huge amount of guards chasing them around the castle. Fere pushed a hidden button as they fell down into a hole. The guards lost sight of them, they both were free-falling and landed on top of something soft... and wet.
-Squirty-
" Thank you Squirties! " Fere thanked them, Edge got off one of the water slime and saw the girl interact with the slimes. They look friendly enough to be harmless, she patted one of the head as it had gurgling(sound like purring). ' At least she's not crying anymore... I wonder what happened to Awru? "
The red haired hero woke up from his sleep, panting and sweating all over his body, by his side was still an unconscious Eci. He sighed and wiped his forehead. " Is it over?.. No... there's still this giant tree. " he said, patting the ground as the others found him.
" Awru! Eci! " they chanted, Awru waved his hand at them and smiled. The twins hugged him before letting go, Griff sat on a log with his eyes closed. Kuhla checked on Eci's vital. Ramna, Libera and Rina surveys the area for any monster.
Awru looked over the giant tree with the middle glowing seven different lights, he thought of how this couldn't be over. How this maybe his grave, the last Gaia Tree Vertri had charged up all his energy since everyone was distracted.
He wanted to do something to stop it, but he couldn't move his muscles. The others doesn't have the strength to counter the attack, knowing that they will only die. Zez was still out of sight with Eci unconscious. Edge had lost somewhere searching for a giant castle as he mentioned. The summoners below had gathered at one spot where they was supposedly stop the attack.
" Make sure to stop the attack Lyud. " Auren commanded, he nodded as he charged his own energy. " Auri, use UBB. " another close call when she threw a sword right in front of his face.
" I know so stop calling me that! Avant! Final Soul Breaker! "
The little girl also known as Rune approached the entrance, she looked over to the sky and saw the giant floating tree. Xenos had taken care of his units tiny injuries he keep fretting about, realizing the powerful energy coming from the 7 Star Unit.
The messy strawberry blonde hair boy stares at the sky, slowly walking away out of town. Dimitri had covered his face with his cloak again as he watches the shining tree from the ground. Nyx and Feeva had taken cover under an obsidian shield.
Every citizen has been ordered to evacuate immediately, but they had no time. As the light shine brighter, Awru had regrets that a drop of water fell to the ground.
" Kuadorasutairu: Endoresubenchā. (Quadra Style: Endless Venture)
To be continued...
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