Chapter 56 New Bonds
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ZATCH BELL! Or Zeno Bell! Or Kiyo Takamine, or Dufort…. Enjoy!
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"There are more of them!" Folgore cried while pulling out his book
"Dufort" Zeno said as he stood in front of Dufort and Kiyo.
Zatch did the same.
"That wasn't very nice, letting Victoreem fall like that…" Laila said in a nonchalant tone
"He had it coming" Zeno retorted
"Zeno? What does she mean?" Zatch asked then looked behind him.
"He's fine!" Zeno responded
Zatch seen that the rope was cut
"AHH! Zeno! I told you not to!" Zatch cried out
"He's still alive" Dufort stated
"I'm sorry that I dropped the idiot, OK!" Zeno yelled
"We can deal with that later, for right now, deal with the enemies in front of us!" Kiyo ordered
"Don't ignore us!" Dalmos shouted across the room.
Dalmos's human partner Elizabeth pulled out their mamodo book.
"Begirusen" Elizabeth yelled with her mamodo book glowing
Dalmos shot out a large spinning metal projectile from his chest; it had large blades extending from the sides of it.
Both Zatch and Zeno stood in front of the group and extended one of their hands and blocked it.
The spinning projectile soon lost it's RPM's and dropped to the floor.
"With their bare hands huh?" Dalmos said slightly impressed
"Folgore burn that Victoreem's book!" Haru yelled
Folgore was the one that was holding on to Victoreem's mamodo book.
"Got it!" Folgore pulled out a match and lit it up.
"No chance!" Dalmos shouted
"Amu Begiru!" Elizabeth responded with her spell book glowing.
Dalmos's arms became missile like projectiles as one of them went toward Zatch, and Zeno, and the other one went after Folgore and Kanchomé.
Both Zatch and Zeno grabbed their human partners and easily dodged the attack, meanwhile Folgore barely dodged the attack but soon found out that the last missile wasn't aiming at him, but Victoreem's spell book.
The shark like arm missile ripped Victoreem's spell book out of Folgore grip and caused the book to go flying out of the room where Victoreem had fallen.
"What happened!" Zeno growled
"He…He went after the spell book" Folgore said in a shocked like fashion.
"Did you burn it at least?" Kiyo asked
"I didn't get the chance!" Folgore tried to explain.
"We will deal with it later" Dufort stated
Zeno took a protective stance in front the rest of the group.
"Everyone that doesn't have any energy left, leave now!" Zeno ordered
"Where you going to go!" Dalmos responded, while covering the only exit.
"Zaker!" Kiyo shouted
Zatch aimed at the wall and made a large hole for the group can run through.
"That's the last of my energy" Kiyo said as he closed the red book and its shine disappeared.
"Everyone, go! I and Dufort can handle them both" Zeno told the group
"Are you crazy? Haru still has plenty of heart energy!" Sugino retorted
"Yeah, but Kiyo, Megumi, and Folgore has ran out. We need you to help protect them if needed" Dufort responded
"No! Zeno, I'm not leaving you!" Zatch protested
"Zatch…" Zeno said and looked at his brother
"I won't get in your way! I can battle without spells and you know it" Zatch stated while now taking a stance besides his brother.
"He's right, since, how much energy does Dufort have left?" Kiyo asked
"A little more than half" Dufort responded
Zeno gave in, "Fine! The rest of you, GO!" Zeno ordered
"We can help you fight too!" Megumi yelled back at Zeno
"No, they're right. We'll only be in the way!" Folgore tried to tell Megumi.
"But…" Megumi had a hard time accepting it
Tia was a bit upset about the situation as well. "Zatch! You better come back!" Tia warned Zatch
"Unu, don't worry Tia, we can do it" Zatch told her.
"Yeah, especially since Zatch's spell book will be out of danger" Kiyo said as he threw Tia, Zatch's red spell book
Tia caught it a little surprised that she was holding on to it.
"Take care of it, and Zatch will defiantly come back" Kiyo told Tia.
Tia gripped the spell book tightly. "You can count on it" Tia responded
"Megumi, where's the exit?" Folgore asked Megumi.
Megumi pulled out Kiyo's map
"Kiyo, Dufort, Zeno, Zatch! We'll come back with help!" Megumi yelled out as she lead the group out of the room and out of the ruins.
Sugino and Haru hesitantly followed behind them, Ponygon soon followed after them.
"Good, now that we have nothing to hold us back…" Zeno said as he put his arm around his brother's shoulder and whispered something into his ear.
"Unu, let's do it!" Zatch said as his cloak started to waver in the air violently
"What are they planning?" Kiyo asked Dufort.
"Just follow their lead" Dufort stated as his silver book started to glow.
"Formation G, remove the ground!" Zatch and Zeno shouted in unison.
Zatch dashed at Dalmos and Laila, while Zeno leaped into the air above Dalmos and Laila
"Not so fast!" Dalmos said with a cocky tone
"Amu Begiru" Elizabeth shouted out
Dalmos aimed at both Zatch and Zeno at the same time.
One of the missile arms went toward Zeno
"Zaker" Dufort countered, using only a little bit of heart energy.
Zeno used a small size Zaker to simply deflect the attack and didn't try to cancel it out.
The other missile arm went toward Zatch.
Zatch only dashed head on right into it but jumped just inches above the attack and started to run on Dalmos's arm.
"Fools! I'll keep coming after you!" Dalmos shouted
The missile that went after Zatch changed direction and went toward Kiyo and Dufort.
The deflected missile arm went back at Zeno
But Zatch had already got between Dalmos and Laila
"Mishield" Albert shouted out.
Laila created a shield to gain distance between her and Zatch.
But Zatch didn't go after anyone but simply smashed his fist into the ground as hard as he could creating a large crater, his cloak then burrowed itself into the ground
"What good did that do!" Dalmos laughed as his missile attack almost reached Kiyo and Dufort.
"RAHHHHH" Zatch roared, as he tugged onto his cloak and lifted it up like it was a heavy load.
The ground soon started to shake and it started to rise like an inflated balloon
"W…What the?" Dalmos responded as the floor underneath him lifted into the air
Laila grabbed Albert and jumped into the air.
Zatch used his cloak to remove a whole section of the floor underneath his opponents which made them lose their footing.
This caused Dalmos's missile spell to go off course and miss Kiyo, Dufort, and Zeno.
"Im…Impossible!" Dalmos shouted out as he was now falling to the room below him.
Zeno then reappeared in front of Dalmos
"Remember, this! Don't underestimate us!" Zeno shouted as he aimed his hand at Dalmos's face
"Zakerga!" Dufort shouted from the room above
"Begiruku" Elizabeth responded while she too was falling in the air.
Dalmos transformed into his battle mode and his armor strengthen and grew, his wings enlarged.
Dalmos braced himself as best as he could, but met Zeno's Zakerga head on. The concentrated blast of lightning sent Dalmos screaming into the ground below which created a large dust plume.
Zatch went back for Kiyo and Dufort to bring them to the lower room below them.
The room below was filled with sand and sand dunes.
Dalmos struggled to get back up. "Damn…damn it…" Dalmos cursed as he got back up on his feet, with blood dripping from his face, and a huge gash into his right arm.
"I bet that felt nice, and there's still more plenty to go around" Zeno bragged while he used his cloak to gently land on the ground.
Laila and Albert avoided most of the falling debris created by Zatch.
Zatch got ready once again and grabbed hold of a couple large boulders using his cloak.
(They really are strong, to put Dalmos into such a situation like this…even without my help. But to them I am the enemy, what do I do?) Laila wondered
"Zatch, you take on the small one, and I'll take care of the fat one" Zeno said pointing at his enemy.
"You little brat!" Dalmos shouted as he used his enhanced speed to dash at Zeno
Dalmos went to then punch Zeno
Zeno covered his arm up in his white cloak and met Dalmos head on in equal strength which created a shockwave.
"WHAT! Impossible! You're not even using an enhancement spell!" Dalmos said as sweat started to run down his face.
"You're pretty stupid, you fat tub of lard! You're just to slow!" Zeno mocked Dalmos then used his small frame to jump on Dalmos's hand then kicked him in the face which sent Dalmos back into the ground.
"Give up!" Zatch yelled as he threw 3 large boulders at Laila
"Mishield" Albert countered
Laila created a moon crescent shaped shield and easily blocked Zatch's attack.
Laila aimed her moon shaped wand at Zatch
"Migron" Albert shouted, but his book was glowing only faintly.
Laila shot a moon shape energy bolt at Zatch.
Zatch was too close to Laila to dodge it so he took it head on.
Zatch put his left hand out and surprisingly, he deflected it with barely any effort.
"Huh?" Zatch said in a confused manner. Zatch looked at his hand to see a small mark. (Did…she go easy on me?) Zatch wondered, but he didn't let his guard down.
Kiyo and Dufort noticed the same thing and were surprised.
Dalmos got back up on his feet.
"Laila! Don't go easy on these present mamodo" Dalmos warned.
"Don't worry…I won't" Laila responded
Zatch once again grabbed hold of more boulders, but they were larger this time.
"Zatch throw them in a three directional pattern, she won't be able to block all three with such a small shield!" Kiyo told Zatch
"Right!" Zatch said then threw one boulder straight at Laila, Zatch then jumped into the air and extended his cloak and unleashed the other two boulders from totally different sides.
The three boulders which were 3x larger then Zatch went hurdling toward Laila.
Laila carefully looked at all three attacks then smashed all three boulders with her bare left hand.
Everyone gave out a blank face not expecting such strength.
"That attack won't work on me" Laila responded then aimed at Zatch again while he was still in midair.
Zatch braced himself for a larger spell
"Migron!" Albert shouted out with his spell book glowing even brighter
"Zatch!" Kiyo shouted out
Laila shot a powerful beam of energy
"Zaker!" Dufort countered
Zeno aimed his Zaker near his brother in order to protect him from Laila's spell.
"Begirusen!" Elizabeth countered
Dalmos shot out a cannon like projectile and stopped Zeno's spell cold.
"Damn!" Zeno growled
The beam of energy just barely missed Zatch and went toward the ceiling to create a large explosion.
The explosion caused a bunch of rumble to fall on top of Dalmos which looked like it buried him alive.
Once again everyone gave Laila a blank face, and was in near shock.
Zatch was the most shocked since he could've been seriously injured if Laila wanted to actually make the spell land.
Zatch landed on the ground gently using his cloak and was about to say something to the girl until…
"Damn IT!" Dalmos shouted as he came busting out of the rumble. "Laila! What's wrong with you?" Dalmos shouted at her.
"I missed" Laila answered simply while shrugging her shoulders.
(No…she's did it twice now, she didn't want to harm Zatch, further more…with her strength I'm sure she could actually fight Zatch 1 on 1 if she truly wanted to…) Kiyo thought to himself.
"Start fighting for real or we might actually lose!" Dalmos told Laila
"Don't take your eyes off your enemy!" Zeno yelled as he dashed at Dalmos again.
Zatch didn't understand it either, so he stood still.
"Umm, Kiyo? What should I do?" Zatch asked with a perplexed face.
"Kiroro Amu Begiru" Elizabeth shouted out
Dalmos grew large blades on his elbows and started to swing at Zeno.
"Sorudo Zakeruga" Dufort countered
Zeno summoned a large lightning sword and blocked all of Dalmos's attacks.
Laila seen her opportunity and grabbed albert and dashed at top speed toward Dalmos and Zeno
"Zeno!" Zatch responded as he chased after Laila
"Dalmos…" Laila said as she was in point blank range of Dalmos's backside.
"You're finished!" Dalmos laughed as he thought Laila would help him attack Zeno.
Zeno took a leaping jump into the front of Dalmos
"I won't lose so easily!" Zeno shouted
"Raajia Migusen" Albert shouted out
Laila's wand crescent moon tip grew very large and shot out like a boomerang.
The large spell smashed right into the back of Dalmos, in point blank range.
"GAHH" Dalmos coughed in pain as his armor shattered and he was sent spiraling into the wall.
Zeno easily dodged Dalmos by jumping over him.
Zatch dived into the ground to avoid tackling Laila into the ground. Zatch got up and spat out a bunch of sand.
Everyone stared at Laila not expecting her to directly attack her own partner.
Zeno looked at Dalmos who was lying on the ground, then back at Laila and gave out a confused look towards her.
"Who's side are you on?" Zeno asked in a confused tone.
"What we're doing is wrong, our battle has already ended" Laila stated
Kiyo and Dufort returned to their partner's side.
"But won't you be turned back into stone?" Kiyo asked
"Only if Dalmos tells Milordo Z about this" Laila responded
"Hmm, I like the way you think, simple answer, burn Dalmos's book" Zeno said confidently.
"Unu, we'll work together!" Zatch stated
"When this is over, you should leave this place" Laila said to the group
"Huh?" Zeno snapped his head back at Laila. "I didn't come all this way for sightseeing, I came to kick some ass, I liked what you said before, so…I'll ignore that last comment you just made" Zeno stated as he charged at Dalmos
"Don't worry, this will be over shortly" Dufort responded with his silver book glowing brightly.
"I can't believe this!" Dalmos shouted then ordered his mindless human partner to cast a spell
"Ganzu Begiru!" Elizabeth shouted out.
Dalmos's arm became a turret and started to shoot out smaller missiles
"Ganzu Zakeru" Dufort countered
Zeno summoned 6 large cylinders that had the lightning symbol on the back of them and shot out multiple Zakers
Both of the spells met head on and canceled each other out.
"If you can't cast spells then follow Zatch's lead, Laila" Kiyo requested
"Alright…" Laila responded as she waited for Zatch to make his move.
"Go!" Zatch yelled then dashed at Dalmos, with Laila following right behind him.
"Think you can beat me with just numbers!" Dalmos yelled
Dufort started to sweat a little as he started to run out of heart energy.
"I won't lose!" Dalmos shouted
"Detosa Begirusen" Elizabeth mindlessly yelled out.
Dalmos shot out a drill like missile that dug itself into the ground.
"JUMP!" Dufort ordered the mamodo children.
Zatch, Zeno and Laila jumped into the air, and soon a whirlpool of sand started below them with a massive drill at the center spinning at an insane rate.
Zatch grabbed hold of Laila and tried floating in the air for as long as possible.
"There's no other way…" Dufort sighed as his spell book began to shine.
"Reedo Dirasu Zakerga!" Dufort shouted out which drained the last bit of his heart energy.
"Damn…" Zeno growled
Zeno summoned a large electric yo-yo with lightning blades at the end of it and used to destroy Dalmos's spell.
Zeno's spell soon disappeared
The three mamodo gently fell to the ground and faced their opponent.
"Ha, what you going to do now?" Dalmos laughed
"Kick you in the face" Zeno told Dalmos
"So what's the plan?" Laila asked Zeno
"I just told him, we're going to kick him in the face. With that spell of yours, you took him out of battle mode, so he's pretty weak right now" Zeno said as he noticed Dalmos was no longer in battle mode.
"What's stopping him from just casting the spell?" Laila retorted
"Our speed!" Zeno shouted as he dashed at Dalmos at full speed, Zatch followed right in his foot tracks and grabbed Laila along with him.
(This is going to be bad…) Laila thought as she started to run on her own feet and followed the twins into what seemed to be oblivion.
"I'll take out the pale kid first" Dalmos laughed as he aimed at Zeno
Zeno smiled as that was exactly what he wanted.
"Begirusen" Elizabeth yelled out.
Dalmos shot out a large projectile at Zeno
Within mere feet before the spell hit Zeno, Zeno used his cloak to teleport out of the way, then teleport himself right behind the spell.
"What…" Dalmos was interrupted with Zeno kicking Dalmos in the face
Zatch and Laila soon followed and kicked Dalmos in the face
"Triple kick!" Zatch yelled out
With the power of the three mamodo kicking him in the face, the blow was enough to send him smashing into the ground.
"Now hold him down!" Zeno ordered as he used his cloak to tie up Dalmos's arms.
Zatch used his cloak to tie up Dalmos's legs.
And Laila helped by holding Dalmos down.
"Spell! Give me a spell human!" Dalmos shouted then looked to see that his partner was knocked out and Dufort was holding Dalmos's book
"Just because we can't use our spells against you, doesn't mean that we're not a threat" Dufort explained as he lit Dalmos's book on fire.
"No…" Dalmos yelled as he disappearing back into the mamodo world.
"Ha, what did I tell you, I was going to kick you in the face" Zeno mocked Dalmos as he was about to disappear.
"Zeno, leave him alone" Kiyo responded
"Why? I even told him what I was going to do, and he couldn't stop me" Zeno said proudly
"Whew…we can finally relax" Zatch said as he lay down in the sand.
"You can really relax during a time like this?" Laila asked
"He's always like that" Zeno responded, Zeno then started to mimic his brother.
Kiyo looked around at the group, and seen that all of them were banged up.
"Well, at least we can regain some of our heart energy" Kiyo responded
Laila stared at Kiyo and the group for a long moment trying to relish in the fact that it felt so carefree…something that she had missed for so long.
Zeno noticed Laila staring at him, and started to blush.
"Yo…what are you going to do now?" Zeno asked with a curious look.
"Wait here. I'll go get something…good." Laila stated then walked away with Albert.
About 5 minutes later Laila came back with Albert, Laila was holding a glass container that had some glowing rocks inside.
"Kiyo, Dufort" Laila called out and approached them.
"?" Kiyo responded
Laila took out a shining stone and handed Kiyo one
"That stone's light disappears in 30 seconds so hold it close to your chest." Laila requested
Kiyo did so, and noticed that his energy started to return. "I feel stronger!" Kiyo said amazed
"What is this thing?" Kiyo asked
"It's the moonlight that released us from our prisons" Laila stated
Kiyo was shocked, Dufort was only slightly shocked. Zeno noticed the three talking about something and decided to join the conversation.
"Please tell us more about this 'light' I've been wondering about it ever since a mamodo mentioned it" Kiyo responded, the stone's light started to disappear while Kiyo held it in his hand.
"Give me that" Zeno said while snatching the stone out of Kiyo's hand. "I don't see anything special about it" Zeno said while looking at a pitch black stone.
"It only lasts for a short time" Laila told Zeno. "I'll tell you what I know, but I don't know much." Laila stated. "I don't know what it is, or what it's made out of, but that's just a tiny piece of a much larger crystal" Laila explained
"Hey Zatch, get your butt over here" Zeno demanded
"Unu" Zatch stopped playing around in the sand and went over to his brother.
"Can I 'please' have a one of those stones for my brother and Partner?" Zeno asked
(He said please) Dufort thought simply
"Here" Laila responded, while handing over another glowing stone.
Zatch, Zeno and Dufort held the stone close to them to heal, and regain their energy.
"You should get going soon" Laila told the group
"Why?" Zeno retorted
"One of the mamodo groups that got sent out is coming back, plus upstairs is pretty active, they might have noticed your presence." Laila explained
"Let them come, I'll take them all out" Zeno announced while raising his hand into the air.
"Plus that group is heading toward the town, so your friends might be found" Laila stated
Zeno's eye twitched, "Then what we waiting for?" Zeno asked
"Unu!" Zatch responded and grabbed onto his brother's cloak.
"Right we got to get moving" Kiyo said, and then looked at Laila. "You should come too" Kiyo stated
Zeno turned to Laila, "He's right" Zeno responded
"I can't, I'm afraid of the moonlight going out…I'm afraid of turning back into stone" Laila said in a scared tone of voice.
"but!" Kiyo was interrupted
"Fine, I'll just take that big ass glowing stone with us!" Zeno stated with confidence
"We can't do that Zeno" Dufort responded
"The hell I can't!" Zeno retorted
Laila smiled a little, "Don't worry about me, Dalmos was sent back to the mamodo world, and no one knows that I'm a traitor" Laila explained
Zeno growled a little then gave in.
"Fine…" Zeno mumbled
"Thank you, and don't be reckless" Kiyo said as he touched Zeno's cloak.
Zeno was about to teleport but stopped.
"Here" Zeno said as he pulled out his last melon and gave it to Laila.
"Oh?" Laila responded
"I don't need it, since we're going to some fancy hotel…so enjoy" Zeno stated then teleported with Kiyo, Dufort, and Zatch to go save the group.