The adventures of Chrysanthemum Lilica, Chapter 14 - Lost at snow
Fudo, Nova and Ichigo left the hospital, each feeling regret for abandoning their injured commrade. Their next stop would be the mountains. After asking countless residents of the location, they finnaly made it to the foot of the overwhelming mountain.
"We have to climb that?!" shrieked Nova in horror, examining the large alp up to it's summit.
"Well, it's the only way to get up." Fudo stated.
"Arghhh! Why did the little brat have to get ill just when we need her?! Talk about unreliable!"
"It's not her fault!" Ichigo cried in her defence, but he spoke upon deaf ears as the other two had already started ascending up the snowy abundance.
Chrys lay helplessly in her hospital bed, wishing she could do more to help her team members. It was then she started wondering why she was ill. She'd never heard of people throwing up black vomit before. She decided to stop worrying and go to sleep. But as she bagan to lie down a piercing pain inflicted her side.
"Ahh!" she screamed, clutching her wound and arching her back. Just as she thought it couldn't get any worse, another helping of black vomit ran up her throat and erupted from her mouth. The nurse ran in worridly to find the celestial mage sitting up in her bed with a black substance trickling down the bed sheets and onto the floor.
"Are you okay?" she questioned in panic.
"Do I look okay?!" A mixture of tears and regurgitated poison had covered the bed by now as the nurse called for back up.
"Fudo, I'm tired!" Nova called up to the quick moving Fudo, who ignored her in return. The three had made it atleast three quarters up the snowy mountain and were almost exhausted.
"Hey, guys! I was thinking... You know how team members have like flashy names and stuff? Well I was thinking that we should have one too! Like um.."
"No." Nova asserted before she could hear any of his rediculous suggestions.
"But-"
"I said no!" she assured as the three began to reach the highest point. Fudo was the first to clamber over the mountainous sculpture to meet his goal. The other two soon followed. They speant the first 10 minutes lying down in the cold snow, gasping for air and resting.
"I guess we'd better be going." Fudo informed the other two through the thick snowstorm.
Chrys continued screaming in pain as throbbing agony coarsed through her veins. The nurse's backup joined her, examining her condition. In the end, they decided to put her to sleep and operate. The last thing she felt before being knocked out was the stinging of a needle in her arm.
Ichigo, Nova and Fudo waided through the heavy snow, barely able to see where they were going.
"Look for a magical preasence!" The dragon slayer ordered, "Watch out for the demon's tricks! Last time it was possesion, this time who knows what it's going to be?"
The three could tell there was something there, but they couldn't pinpoint an exact location.
"Another thing, also look for it's box!" He added.
"How are we supposed to find that in all this snow?" The gun requip mage exclamed.
"I remember Chrys saying she could feel a lot more magic eminating from that that anything else, so we shouldn't have much of a problem!"
The three travelled far and wide, but nothing was found. It had been another 2 hours when they realized something was wrong.
"I-I'm too cold. I don't think I can walk much further..." Nova trembled.
"Same h-here..." Ichigo agreed.
"I d-d-don't understand... We've been walking for ages but the path doesn't seem to end..." Fudo added. Nova was trying her hardest to carry on, but her efforts were wasted as her ankle twisted and she keeled over.
"Nova!" Fudo called, joining her side.
Ichigo was the one to turn back and realize that nothing seemed to look the same.
"G-Guys... Look back! I don't remember w-w-walking that way! " he shivered.
"What?!" Nova cried, also looking back.
"This must be the demon's trick! This explains why travlers don't ever return! The demon creates a maze and traps it's prey, then using the cold weather, it kills them and devours their souls!" realized the cosmic dragon slayer as the two others gaped in surprise at how fast he worked that out.
"Demon! Come out of hiding. We know your tricks!" Fudo yelled, helping Nova stand up. Just as he said that, a large clump of snow gathered together and formed an unusual figure that soon ambled towards them.
"Here it comes!" Fudo warned as it revealed it's true self. It wasn't as tall as the house demon, infact it was almost the complete opposite. It was ordinarily sized and looked perfectly nimble. The Abominable Snowman.
"You saw through my tricks." It said in a gruff voice. "Clever... And I take it was also you that defeated the domestic demon, heh, I always knew it was a weakling. I am the demon of the mountains. The second demon of Zeref. We each have our own little party tricks. Mine is as you said, to change the course of my mountain. I'm also very skilled at ice magic. The domestic demon had the power to posses one's soul, therefore it was exeptionally good at shadow magic. Although, there's really no point in me telling you this as I will be your very last opponent."
Using it's monkey-like feet, it sprang up creating a blade of ice on it's arm.
"You. I ain't lettin' you hurt my friends." The light mage's voice completely changed. Sunglasses materialized on his face and his long black coat burled in the wind. He then outstretched his arm and moved his fingers into the shape of a gun.
"light gun." he calmly chanted. From out of his finger, bullet-like lasers shot at the yetti. Once the other two had got over his sudden personality change, they decided to help.
"Requip, multiplyer!" A shiny firearm materialized into her open palm. She aimed, then fired a single bullet. That bullet them multiplyed in mid air until there was about 10 of them and pierced her target. Having been hit with lasers and bullets, the Yetti became more and more aggresive.
"Howl of snow!" he chanted. A stream of ice and snow shot towards the three mages.
"Roar of the cosmic dragon!" Fudo counter attacked. The two beams colided in mid-air, each magician exerting more and more power until the two exploded into nothing. When the explosion cleared, the demon had gone. Fudo desperatly looked around until he heard the scream of Nova as she got slashed by a ariel attack.
"Nova!" The two shouted.
"I'm fine."
"Ball of light!" Ichigo chanted, forming the shape of a ball between his hands. The demon was too quick for him. Just before he had the chance to send it flying, he also recieved an aerial attack. Ice slashed through his arm and blood stained the once white snow. As the Demon of the mountain landed back in his position, they all realised that he hadn't recieved a single scratch.
"How are we going to beat him?" Nova exclaimed.
"I don't know, but be prepared for when he attacks from the sky!" Fudo answered.
"Light beam!" Ichigo called, firing a large laser at the target. Once again, he easily doged.
"Cosmic dragon, wing attack!" Fudo attempted to give the Abominable snowman a taste of his own medicine, but narrowly missed as the target once again dodged.
"Requip, howitzer!" Nova chanted. She beckoned the two mages to come closer. "Fudo, use your roar attack directly forward, Ichigo, use your light beam to join him. I'll take care of the rest." She whispered.
"Fine. Roar of the cosmic dragon!" Fudo belowed.
"Light beam!"
The two attacks hurtled forwards, and as expected, the demon jumped up.
"Sky shot!" Nova called, firing a bullet upwards. It once again missed the target.
"Ha!" called the yeti smuggly, looking down on the determined Nova. Just as the Demon thought he got away with it, the bullet exploded like a firework into a million colours, hitting the gobsmacked enemy and causing him to fall.
"Nice one, Nova! Cosmic dragon star attack!" Fudo shouted, waving his arm horizontally and causing countless shouriken-shaped attacks flying towards the weakened target. The attack finnaly landed. The demon of the mountain was sent flying backwards until it hit a large rock.
"Cosmic dragon, Roar!"
"Light beam!"
"Requip, multiplyer! Fire!"
The demon was finnaly defeated.
"Atleast that warmed us up..." Ichigo sighed. The three of them were exhausted. They still needed to find the box.
Suddenly, the mountain demon changed into a blob of ice and zoomed away.
"What?!" Nova cried.
"It's going to it's box!" Fudo shouted, "Follow it!"
The three mages trampled over thick snow until under a pile of snow, lay the box, from which it would be concealed in for eternity.
"Light rays gather from far and wide, help me now by being by my side, encase the darkness from within, provide repent for mortal sin. Release!" the light mage yelled, encasing the box in a harsh cloak of light.
"Yay! The bad demon's gone!"
"I see you're back to your normal self." Nova pointed out disappointedly.
"I guess we'd better be off an see Chrys." Fudo reminded.
"Does that mean we have to climb down the mountain again?! This day just keeps getting better and better..." Nova weeped.