Chapter 59 One long day
Authors Note: I found a lot of these mamodo on Wika, and it appears they're from the anime…not much information about them…but whatever. They're just a warm up anyways. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own the character Cross. He belongs to DeathySophia.
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With Zeno and Dufort waking up the ancient mamodo lair, Zofis told them to investigate, and of course, to protect the stone of moon light.
It didn't take long for Zeno and Dufort to hear noises echoing throughout the ruins.
Sounds like, "an intruder?" and "at night?" one voice could be heard quite a ways down the hallway.
More voices came saying things like "Where are they?", "Seriously? Do present mamodo sleep now and days?", "My Human partner is basically sleep walking", "Let's burn the intruder's book, and be done with this quickly", "I want to go to sleep", "Damn Zofis should do this his damn self".
Zeno and Dufort nonchalantly kept on walking towards the top of the ruins, where the stone of moon light was located. Apparently, this is where all of the mamodo from 1000 years ago slept, because Zeno and Dufort didn't hear a single sound coming from behind them.
"Zeno, we'll be in trouble if I run out of energy" Dufort stated.
"Yeah, yeah…use low class spells for the night, and we'll get off, just fine." Zeno told him.
Zeno kept on listening to the voices nearing; "They're going to make this too easy; if I know where they're at, then I can simply do hit and run tactics all night." Zeno laughed.
Zeno and Dufort then entered a medium size room where two mamodo were waiting for him.
There was a mamodo with a pointy red head with green eyes. His two arms had red armor, like shields. His body looked like segments, sort of like an ant, his main body segments had brown fur covering it. (His name is Baraho)
There was another mamodo with a shark head like face and with a reptilian-like skin, yet a humanoid-like body. (His name was Ibaris)
Both mamodo, looked like they were in a daze.
"You sleepy?" Zeno taunted the both of them.
"A spell human!" Ibaris yelled.
"Dezurga" Ibaris's human partner yelled.
"Zeno" Dufort responded, while putting his hand on Zeno's cloak.
"Yeah…" Zeno responded, while grabbing Dufort's hand.
Ibaris launched a sharp energy wave.
Zeno quickly jumped into the air, with Dufort to dodge the attack.
"Giro Doruk" Baraho's human partner yelled out.
Baraho's two hands formed into a pointy shield, and he then seemed to be able to fly, and he used the spell to dash at Zeno.
Zeno easily blocked Baraho's attack.
"Zaker" Dufort responded
Zeno attacked the mamodo with a decent size Zaker that sent him flying into the wall, and his book was touched by the lightning as well, so he was sent back to the mamodo world.
Zeno's quick reaction, and power easily frightened Ibaris as he ran away from the fight along with his human partner.
"We don't need to chase them" Dufort told Zeno.
Zeno gently landed on the ground with Dufort on his cloak.
"Yeah…let's explore a little bit more" Zeno suggested.
Zeno and Dufort kept on heading toward the top of the castle, where the stone of moonlight was located, until they entered a large room where 8 mamodo were waiting for him.
"Hand over your book, you fool!" One mamodo yelled.
Zeno growled a little for being called that name.
"I'll show you who the fool is" Zeno told them, Dufort stayed on Zeno's cloak.
Zeno took a good look at his opponents.
There was one mamodo that was wearing Bandages around his face; he had white fur covering his head and chest. He was wearing a black uniform, and his arms had blue arm guards with spikes coming out of them. (His name was Zami)
One mamodo was wearing a black vest, with a dark blue ninja attire underneath. He was wearing a long black pointy hat, with 2 lines running down each eye. (His name was Ninin)
One mamodo, who had no facial features. He had purple hair, and was wearing a long yellow sleeve shirt with red pants. (His name was Noumen)
A caveman looking mamodo, who was a little taller than Zeno, he had yellow hair covering most of his upper body, except for his face. His skin was brown. (His name was Domu)
There was a large mamodo with a snake like body, his skin color was purple on the top, and his underside is white. He has 6 eyes and serrated teeth. (His name was Meumutsume)
A mamodo slightly taller than Zeno was seen standing besides Meumutsume. He was a humanoid looking beetle, his shell was brown. (His name was Buton)
A small mamodo was hovering in the air. His body was oddly shaped. There was a red cone hovering above his cylindrical head, which is connected to a blue body. His eyes are black points on the face, which also has no facial features. He has a halo like circle hovering around his neck. (His name was Giriko)
And lastly there was a large centipede mamodo. (I don't know his name, his spells aren't listed either)
"If we stay here to long, we'll be flanked" Dufort told Zeno
Zeno scoffed at that remark.
Zeno looked at his opponents, "this bunch won't take long" Zeno responded
The 8 mamodo stupidly started to attack Zeno 1 by 1.
Buton was the first one to charge in recklessly at Zeno.
Zeno quickly jumped into the air, and did a roundhouse back kick, which sent Buton back to his human partner.
Domu and Noumen then took their chance to go after Dufort while Zeno was still in the air.
Zeno laughed a little, as he used his cloak to propel himself to the ground, and with both of his hands, he smashed the two mamodo into the ground face first.
"Zaker" Dufort responded
Zeno didn't show any mercy to those still laying on the ground, he aimed his hand and unleashed a decent size lightning strike on the both of them, which sent them flying back to their allies.
Both mamodo found it very hard to stand up afterwards.
The large Centipede mamodo then attacked Zeno with a poisonous gas spell that came out of the mouth.
"Spit on me, will you?" Zeno growled, Zeno used his cloak like a fan to send the spell back at his enemies.
The 8 mamodo had to scatter across the room in order to dodge the spell.
The 8 mamodo soon surrounded Zeno and Dufort.
"Attack them all at once!" Ninin shouted out.
The 8 mamodo each casted a spell and attacked Zeno from all sides.
The centipede mamodo once again casted a poison gas spell at Zeno
"Gazuron" Giriko's human partner shouted out. Giriko shot out a metallic like chainsaw which had many sections at Zeno.
"Torugu" Buton's human partner shouted out. Buton's antennas grew much larger in size and went straight at Zeno and Dufort.
The large snake mamodo Meumutsume shot out a large fire ball from his mouth which sped towards Zeno.
Domu and Noumen who were still trying to recover from Zeno's lightning attack, sent out weaker versions of their attack.
Domu's human partner casted a spell, and Domu shot out a large condense rock made of sand.
"Siruk" Noumen's human partner chanted. Noumen's hands grew, and they began to glow with light. As his arms had become stronger, he then charged at Dufort once more.
Ninin and Zami were covering the escape route, and they launched their attacks at their enemy as well.
"Neshiruga" Ninin's human partner yelled out. Ninin charged up his hand, and shot out a condense energy blast; the spell was faster than his other allies spells.
"Gou Gairon" Zami's human partner shouted out. Zami's fingernails started to glow, and they themselves became like an energy beam, and went at Zeno and Dufort.
Dufort causally flipped through a couple pages, "Raajia Zakeru" Dufort countered.
Zeno covered Dufort up in his cloak to protect him. Zeno then raised his hand then slammed it onto the ground, causing a large lightning shockwave that covered the entire room in lightning and canceled out the oncoming spells, for those who used strengthening spells were electrocuted and sent flying backwards.
The 8 mamodo were all sent into a daze, and couldn't believe what had just happened.
Zeno and Dufort didn't show any letting up.
"Zaker, Zaker" Dufort quickly called out.
Zeno swiped his right arm, which enveloped 2 mamodo and their books, and then he used his left hand to take out another 2 mamodo along with their books.
Within a few moments, Buton, Giriko, Meumutsume, and the large centipede's books were on the ground burning. The four mamodo soon returned to the mamodo world.
Ninin regained his composure and went for another attack.
"Neshiruga!" The human partner yelled out. Ninin unleashed a powerful energy blast out of his hand, which went speeding at Zeno.
"Zakerga" Dufort countered.
Zeno unleashed a powerful Zakerga that easily overpowered the energy blast. The lightning continued to the enemy mamodo and smashed him into the wall; his book was caught in the crossfire and also quickly burned.
"Siruk!" Noumen's human partner chanted. Noumen charged at Dufort again with his hands having a strengthening spell activated. The mamodo charged at Dufort from behind, and went for Dufort's book.
Dufort used his answer talker and easily dodged a couple powerful swipes by the mamodo.
"Zeno….go" Dufort told Zeno, while still dodging Noumen's attacks.
Zeno understood, and quickly went after the 2 other mamodo who were I practically a state of shock due to Zeno's overwhelming power.
Meumutsume shot another large fireball of red flames at Zeno.
Zeno simply ducked and dodged the spell with ease.
At the same time, Dufort dodged an uppercut by Noumen.
"Zakerga" Dufort chanted out.
Zeno aimed at Meumutsume and his partner and unleashed a medium size lightning blast that smashed into the mamodo and the book, causing the mamodo to return to the mamodo world nearly instantly.
Domu attempted to cast a spell, but Zeno was too fast and threw Domu at Noumen, which stopped his attacks on Dufort.
Dufort just stood there without a scratch on him.
"Zaker" Dufort responded
Domu's human partner was wide open, so Zeno used a small lightning burst that ignited Domu's book.
Noumen seeing that he was all alone. He quickly grabbed his human partner and ran away.
"That took a bit longer than it should have." Zeno stated then started walking in the general direction of where the stone of moonlight was supposedly located.
"Are you sure you weren't just playing around?" Dufort asked.
"I would I play in such a place?" Zeno teased Dufort
Dufort and Zeno kept on walking, determined to reach their destination.
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Meanwhile…
"My lord" A mamodo stated while walking to Zofis's side.
Zofis glared at the mamodo, as he was having trouble waking Koko up out of bed.
"The intruder….is still coming closer" The mamodo tried to explain.
"Are you telling me you can't handle ONE mamodo!" Zofis yelled at the puny mamodo.
"I…I'm sorry my….lord…He's just to powerful" The mamodo responded.
Zofis smacked the mamodo to the ground, and walked away.
"Pull out of the area, I don't want to lose anymore mamodo" Zofis ordered the mamodo, and that mamodo went to relay that message.
Zofis sat down next to Koko, who had just gotten up out of bed.
(Damn it! Damn that Zeno, he's proving more troublesome then Brago!) Zofis thought and his blood started to boil, as an evil aura started to surround his body. (He can't possibly be thinking of facing all of my mamodo by himself…that's suicide…what is he up to?) Zofis tried to think of what Zeno's motives could be for an outright attack.
"Zofis, should we take care of our pest problem?" Koko asked as she got out of bed and grabbed the mamodo book.
"No, Koko, my dear. It's best if we let the 1000 year old mamodo deal with this situation" Zofis told Koko.
Zofis looked at the group of mamodo who were in charge of protecting the stone of moonlight.
Taking a look at them, it appeared to be 5 ancient mamodo. There were 2 enormous mamodo, who partly blocked the light from the stone of moonlight. And another 3 mamodo average size mamodo, they looked roughly 10-13 years old between the 3 of them.
"Who wants to give our guest a warm welcoming?" Zofis asked.
The five mamodo looked at each other, but before most could answer….
"I'll do it!" A voice called out. The stone of moonlight was able to give off some light revealing parts of his body. He was a kid who looked like he was 12, he had green eyes with mamodo lines going down each eye, but shaped in a cross pattern. His hair was a bit messy, but the color was blond white. As for the rest of him, it was covered in shadows since it so dark out.
"Very well" Zofis stated as he started to walk away, and went back to the throne room, where Koko was.
"Make sure to come back" A voice told the boy. The figure seemed to have stars hovering around him, but the darkness made it hard to make out anything else.
"Of course I will! I'm Cross after all!" Cross introduced his name then started to walk out of the large room where the stone of moonlight was being protected by 4 powerful mamodo.
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Dufort and Zeno soon entered in a room where there was a large bridge like staircase that stretched across a large empty pit, which was so deep that they couldn't see the bottom.
"I'm betting that the staircase leading to the entrance is the way leading to the stone of moon light" Zeno stated.
Dufort realized early on that they stopped being hindered by anymore enemy mamodo.
"It's too quiet" Zeno said out loud.
"Do you want to continue?" Dufort asked
Zeno took a look around the large open space to see that there were other entrances in the walls, but there was no way to get to them by foot.
"I want to explore more" Zeno told Dufort.
"We should leave a trail for your brother to follow" Dufort told Zeno
"I guess…even though he'll be able to sense my presence anyways" Zeno responded while pulling out some of his hair and placing it on the floor.
"If I sense his presence, I'll use my puppet to talk with him" Zeno explained. "Lets go" Zeno said, as he took front lead, walking up across the bridge.
About halfway up the stairs, Zeno and Dufort sensed a strong aura heading towards them.
"This is the easiest way to the top. We shouldn't fight here" Dufort told Zeno
"Yeah….but let's provoke them to follow us" Zeno responded with a slight grin.
"Zaker" Dufort said mildly
Zeno aimed his hand upwards at the main entrance and unleashed a small sporadic lightning bolt that traveled into the hallway.
The glow of a mamodo book could be seen and a spell was soon casted.
Collisions of the spells were heard, but not seen, it became apparent that both spells were canceled out.
"Let's see if they can keep up" Zeno mocked his unseen foe.
Dufort jumped onto Zeno's cloak and Zeno jumped off the bridge and dashed into another hallway, which was leading away from his new opponent.
"Shit! They're running away!" Cross yelled as he came running down the stairs with his human partner.
"WE need to chase them!' cross yelled even louder.
"Fei Crosuku" The Cross's partner chanted
Two energy like crosses appeared on Cross's shins, and he soon started to float in the air.
Cross grabbed the hand of his human partner and quickly started chasing Zeno while flying.
Zeno looked behind him to see an oncoming glow come his way. It was easy to see since the hallway was so dark, the light was pretty easy to spot.
(He's pretty fast…but he has to cast a spell to keep up with me) Zeno thought, Zeno was only using his legs to run as fast as he could, but he wanted to have a good distance between him and his enemy, so he used his cloak to give him even more speed.
(Damn…to be able to out run me while this spell is casted…this is going to be fun, he must be strong) Cross thought as he started to become all giddy because of the upcoming battle.
"Take a right" Dufort instructed Zeno
Zeno took his advice and turned right, into the next hallway, which lead to a large room where it was pretty well lit because it had torches lit all around the room, plus a large chandelier which was also lit up with torches. The large room could easily handle a mamodo battle due to its size.
"Cut off the other end" Dufort instructed.
Zeno aimed his hand at the end of the room, where there seem to be an exit.
"Zaker" Dufort chanted.
Zeno unleashed a medium size Zaker, which traveled to the other end of the room, and destroyed the exit.
"Now we wait for…." Zeno was cut off by the enemy mamodo quickly catching up to him from behind.
Zeno and Dufort dodged his mad dash.
"Zaker" Dufort then responded
"So soon!" Cross yelled as he put his partner on the ground and prepared himself to counter the spell.
Zeno instead aimed his hand at the last entrance and blew it to hell, trapping the both of them inside the room.
"Eh?" Cross said being confused to why Zeno and Dufort did that.
"Look around you, you're trapped" Zeno told enemy mamodo.
Cross did so and realized there was no way of escaping.
All of a sudden Cross started to laugh, "Ha! Now you gone and trapped yourself! My plan worked brilliantly!" Cross shouted at Zeno
(What? I was the one who trapped him… No point in arguing with him) Zeno thought as he walked in front of Dufort in order to protect him.
The amount of light inside the room allowed Dufort and Zeno to take a good look at his opponents.
The enemy mamodo was 12 years of age, and was of average height. His skin color was white, his hair was sort of covering his brilliant green eyes. Most notably he had cross shaped mamodo lines running down each eye. He was wearing a white shirt with a big black cross design on his left side, brown cargo shorts, and black sneakers.
Cross's partner who had a blank stare; which most likely meant that the human was under Zofis's control. He was around Dufort's age, and was 160cm tall, with a small build. He had sleek brown hair with bangs, rectangular glasses. He was a long sleeved blue shirt, black long pants, and black shoes.
"Satoshi, how about we wipe these fools out" Cross stated, and introduced his human partner's name.
"…" Satoshi didn't respond.
Cross let out a depressing sigh, he was hoping Satoshi would respond and agree.
(I have to get used to that…) Cross thought, with a frown going across his face.
Zeno thought Cross's behavior was a bit odd, but it didn't sway him from fighting.
"Well, get ready!" Cross yelled at Zeno, as Cross used his enhancement spell to quickly dash at Zeno. The speed created was so fast, that a white trail was left behind as a result.
"RRAAHH!" Cross shouted as spun in the air, and came within close range to Zeno. Cross then let out a quick round house kick, and tried to make it land in Zeno's face.
Zeno blocked the kick with one hand.
Feeling the pressure of the kick, Zeno was surprised to see that he was actually moved backwards a couple inches.
(He used his speed to make his kick stronger…) Zeno thought as he pushed Cross away with the same arm he blocked with.
(He didn't even try to cast a spell?) Cross thought in surprise.
Cross went in close range again, and stayed in midair which was practically above Zeno's head.
"Take this!" Cross shouted as he started to do a fury of punches and kicks, and doing some spinning kicks that was ramped up by the glowing of his legs.
Zeno kept on either dodge the kicks and punches, or kept on blocking them with his bare hands.
(He'll never be able to touch me at this rate) Zeno thought
(He'll be worn out at this rate) Cross thought
About 20 seconds passed, with Zeno just taking a defensive stance and watching the movements of Cross.
Cross kept on attacking Zeno with a fury of punches and kicks, none of which actually did any damage to Zeno.
(This has gone on long enough!) Cross thought as he did a feint attack, by swinging his right leg upward, trying to hit Zeno's chin.
Zeno quickly blocked the kick with his right hand. Cross took this chance and used his left leg to make a direct hit in Zeno's face.
"Gah" Zeno muttered as the foot across his face caused his head to turn slightly.
(Direct hit!) Cross thought with a smile across his face.
Even Zeno seemed to smile, as his brilliant purple eyes glared at Cross.
Before Cross could withdraw his leg, Zeno grabbed a firm hold of his left leg.
"What?" Cross said as he tried to get loose by trying to kick Zeno again, with his right leg.
Zeno easily blocked it, and started to swing Cross around like a rag doll, Zeno lifted Cross and smashed him into the floor face first, and with this relentless attack, Zeno kept on repeating this action of swinging Cross around and smashing into the floor.
About 6 times of getting smashed into the ground, Cross used his right leg to twist him around, and he managed to stop himself from being smashed into the ground again, by practically doing a pushup on the ground.
Zeno noticed that Cross wouldn't let himself be thrown around like that anymore, so with all of his might, Zeno threw Cross into the air.
(Finally! He let me go!) Cross thought as he did a few back flips in the air, to slow himself down.
When Cross was finally upright he noticed Zeno was only 10 feet away from him, and he was also flying.
(He…can FLY TOO!) Cross thought in a panic.
"Zaker" Dufort responded
Zeno aimed at Cross and unleashed a powerful lightning blast.
"Crosuru" Satoshi responded
Cross aimed his hand, and shot out a powerful cross shape beam at the oncoming spell.
Both spells collided with equal strength and canceled each other out, but created an explosion which sent both mamodo in opposite directions of each other.
Zeno used his cloak to gently land on the ground
Cross was going to use his flying spell to gently land on the ground…but it disappeared.
"Wait what? Nooo!" Cross yelled as he fell to earth with a loud thump.
"Ouch, ouch…" Cross said as he got back up on his feet, with a few lumps on his head, due to Zeno's beating, and his recent landing.
(He…didn't count the amount of time he had for that spell?) Zeno thought
"That spell lasts for 1 minute and 30 seconds." Dufort told Zeno.
"Guess I got a little carried away there" Cross laughed, while spinning his head around a little to loosen up his neck.
"You act like the rest of the mamodo I've fought, you charge in recklessly" Zeno stated. Zeno jumped back to Dufort.
"We should work together to bring this to an end quickly" Dufort told Zeno
Zeno looked at Dufort
"I don't need that ability of yours to fight every battle" Zeno responded as he stood in front of Dufort. "I'm perfectly capable of fighting on my own" Zeno told Dufort.
"…Then go" Dufort responded simply. (I hope Zeno doesn't force me to use too much energy, we already had to go through 2 fights) Dufort thought to himself.
"Are you two done talking?! Cause here I come!" Cross yelled at them. Cross started to run at Dufort and Zeno.
Zeno did the same, and ran at Cross, but Zeno was 5x faster.
Zeno quickly jumped in the air, and was 20 feet above Cross.
"A spell!" Cross shouted
"Zakerga" Dufort said
"Croshirudo" Satoshi countered
Zeno unleashed a powerful and condense lightning blast
Cross summoned a large cross shield to defend against the spell.
The lightning blast smashed into the shield, and crackling could be heard from the sparks of the lightning.
Cross started to notice cracks forming in his shield.
(Crap!) Cross thought, Cross started to run away from the two spells, and soon after Zakerga broke through the shield and smashed into the floor creating a large explosion.
Cross looked behind him to see the destruction created by the spells, and the plume of smoke that was created as an after effect. Cross looked around to try and spot Zeno, but he was nowhere to be seen.
(Where is he?) Cross thought, as the smoke plume soon surrounded him.
"You're pretty good…most of Zofis's minions would have been defeated by now" Zeno complemented Cross, yet he hid in the smoke, so Cross still couldn't see him.
"Your pretty strong yourself, to be able to destroy my shield spell" Cross responded, while still straining himself to pinpoint Zeno's position by sound.
"You're trying really hard to find me! How about this! I'll let you have one free hit!" Zeno yelled as loud as he could.
Cross turned around to see a dark figure in the smoke, which appeared to have a cloak fluttering in the wind.
(He's underestimating me!) Cross thought in anger
"YOU ASKED FOR IT!" Cross shouted
"Gigano Crosuru" Satoshi shouted
Cross shot out a larger and more powerful form of Crosuru at the dark figure. The beam traveled at a fast rate, within a few moments enveloped the dark figure in the energy blast, and wiped it out.
"Hah! That show you!" Cross yelled
"You missed" Zeno mocked, while standing right behind Cross.
Cross slowly turned around, in a near state of shock, "How…how did I miss?" Cross thought as he looked into Zeno's eyes.
Cross quickly tried to counter, and threw a back fist at Zeno.
Zeno let Cross hit him across the face on purpose, which left a red mark on his cheek.
Zeno once again grabbed Cross's hand and lifted it into the air.
Cross tried to counter by punching him with his other fist, but Zeno grabbed his other hand with his cloak and forced Cross's hand behind his back.
(Shit! I can't move) Cross thought as he started to see Zeno's free hand start to glow.
"Zaker" Dufort responded
Zeno placed his hand on Cross's chest and sent a direct blast of lightning coursing through his body.
"AHHHHHH" Cross shouted in pain and his shirt started to burn a clean hole that showed his burnt chest.
The spell soon ended, but Zeno didn't let go of his opponent.
(I can't lose like this…we….didn't even cast our strongest spells) Cross thought as he tried to regain his composure.
Zeno was practically holding Cross up on his feet, to keep him standing.
"We both use our hands to cast spells, when you allowed me to restrain you. It was game over" Zeno told Cross.
"I…would like…to know your name" Cross requested.
Zeno found this a bit odd, but decided to answer it anyways.
"Zeno Bell" Zeno introduced himself.
"My name is Cross" Cross introduced himself to Zeno.
Zeno's hand started to glow again, and he placed it on Cross's chest.
(With this…it'll be over) Zeno and Cross both thought.
Cross's right hand that was being forced into the air by Zeno soon started to glow.
(!He's going to cast a spell…shit it's too late, Zeno is just going to have to take the blow…But I'll use a powerful spell as well) Dufort thought as he started to build up energy into the book.
"Zakerga" Dufort shouted
"Aradom Crosuru" Satoshi shouted
Both of the human partners used the full potential of the spells they were casting.
Zeno was surprised to hear Satoshi shout out a spell, and he reacted by covering himself up inside his cloak, while making sure his spell made a direct hit into Cross's chest.
Zeno unleashed a very powerful Zakerga straight into Cross's body which enveloped his body in lightning.
Cross's hand glowed bright white, and summoned 12 medium size crosses which floated into the air.
"Shoot…" Cross muttered as he soon began to lose consciousness.
Then the 12 crosses each fired straight line energy beams that all made direct impact with Zeno.
Cross was blown across the room and smashed into the wall.
Zeno was covered in 12 explosions due the 12 energy beams hitting him.
Silence soon followed.
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Dufort walked up to Zeno to make sure he was alright.
Cross was completely knocked out from the spell, as most of his body was covered in burns.
"Zeno?" Dufort responded, while looking at a greyish cloak that was totally surrounding a small body.
"…Shit…that hurt" Zeno said as he had his cloak uncover his body.
Zeno's condition was much better then Cross's, but it was apparent that he had taken a lot of damage.
Zeno had blood dripping from his head, his right arm had three large burns on it, from where the cloak was penetrated, and his left leg was bruised.
"Hey! You are you awake?" Zeno asked as he stood upright within a matter of only 30 seconds.
Cross didn't respond.
(I didn't expect him to sacrifice his body like that…in order to hurt me) Zeno thought to himself, while being impressed.
All of a sudden Cross started to coughing, and he started moving. He spat out some blood, and he looked around in a daze.
Cross finally looked straight forward to see Zeno was already standing.
(He…he's a monster… To get hit by 12 beams of energy and still stand…as if nothing happened!) Cross thought as he struggled to get to his hands. The room appeared darker then it was from before, strangely his sense of sound had increased at least 2X. So much in fact that Cross could hear his own heartbeat, and he could tell that his heart was beating irregularly. (I can't take another blow to the chest…or I'll end up losing for sure) Cross thought as he finally found the strength to stand back up right, but just barely.
"You still want to fight?" Zeno asked the battered boy.
"I…would never back down from a fight…especially against someone like you" Cross yelled at Zeno.
"Zeno" Dufort said while pointing at his own chest.
(Dufort wants to conserve more heart energy) Zeno thought.
"So what you waiting for!" Cross shouted at Zeno, Cross wanted Zeno to charge at him for a change. (I don't think I can run at full speed anymore…shoot, running at half my speed is going to be a challenge) Cross thought while he prepared himself to be attacked by Zeno.
Zeno didn't do anything but stand there.
"You seemed confused by how I dodged your Gigano spell" Zeno stated while walking towards Cross a little bit.
(…I still don't know how he did that…) Cross thought. "Yeah, that cheap shot of yours didn't accomplish anything!" Cross said and tried laughing, but ended up holding his ribs in pain.
Zeno pulled out some of his hair, and created a creepy looking floating puppet that had a similar cloak to Zeno's.
"This is the thing that you wasted your Gigano class spell on" Zeno explained, while having the puppet close in on Cross.
The puppet went face to face with Cross…this of course pissed Cross off to no end.
"Don't SCREW WITH ME!" Cross shouted as he dealt a powerful punch into the puppet, which made it disappear.
"It's about time I end this" Zeno said with a serous looking face.
(So sudden?) Cross thought, as he prepared himself.
Zeno instead of charging at Cross, went straight for his human partner instead.
"Don't! You coward!" Cross yelled as he aimed his hand at Zeno
"Zak…" Dufort was about to say, until he heard Satoshi cast a spell.
"Gigano Crosuru" Satoshi responded
Cross unleashed a powerful cross shape beam at Zeno.
Zeno seen this coming, and easily dodged it.
"What?!" Cross yelled.
(It's called a fake attack…idiot) Zeno thought as he jumped backwards.
Cross used this chance to get in front of his partner in order to protect him.
"You wasted another Gigano class spell, I never intended on hurting your partner" Zeno explained to Cross.
"Hah! The same can't be said for me!" Cross said as he raised one of his hands into the air, and it began to glow.
(He's going to attack Dufort!) Zeno thought as he looked back at Dufort.
Dufort nodded his head, which signaled Zeno to attack.
"You left your human partner wide open for attack!" Cross shouted
"Aradom Crosuru" Satoshi yelled.
Cross summoned 12 medium size crosses, which were about 2x2 feet in size.
(I don't want to kill the human…just injure him…or burn his book!) Cross thought. "Shoot!" Cross shouted.
The 12 crosses individually shot out a small energy beam that was strong enough to incapacitate a human being, but the crosses only shot out once at a time, Cross did this on purpose to make sure that Dufort wouldn't die from this attack.
Zeno didn't hesitate, as he began to make a mad dash at Cross's location.
(He's not even trying to protect his partner! Screw it, I'll burn his book before he reaches me!) Cross thought.
The first energy beam was about to hit Dufort, but something changed in the man's eyes, and he dodged the spell by an inch. Soon came 3 more energy beams, Dufort quickly moved from side to side, and he started to easily dodge the beams.
(He's dodging them! Impossible! No human has ever dodged this attack!) Cross thought, as he increased the rate of fire for the Crosses.
Cross shot out 6 more energy beams, and Dufort practically did a split and a quick jumping roll to dodge the coming beams. The 6 energy beams soon missed their target again.
Cross looked at Zeno again to see that he was only a couple seconds away from being pounded on.
Cross then shot the remainder of the beams, all of which Dufort seemingly dodge most of them, except for one beam which grazed his left arm.
"Zaker" Dufort then responded
Zeno was in point blank range
(Shit…there's no time to cast a spell!) Cross thought, as he put his hands out forward, and pointed them at Zeno's glowing hand. (I'll have to block it…with my bare hands) Cross thought as he braced himself.
Zeno soon unleashed a powerful lightning blast that smashed into Cross's hands, and around half of his body.
Cross was pushed back 3 feet by the force of the spell, and his legs nearly gave out due to the electric current running through them.
"AHHHHHH" Cross shouted in pain.
Cross's hands were effectively becoming useless as they were scorched by the spell, but Cross was able to protect his upper body from any damage.
Cross stood there, with a vacant like stare; his hands were still extending outwards, trying to protect his chest from any further harm.
Zeno casually walked up to Cross, and was about 2 feet away from him.
"You're finished" Zeno stated, as he then gave Cross a nearly jaw crushing uppercut that sent him soaring into the air.
Cross did a near back flip in the air, and landed hard on the ground.
"Burn his book" Dufort told Zeno
"Yeah…" Zeno responded while aiming at Satoshi and his book.
Satoshi in response held the book close to his chest in order to protect it.
"Zaker" Dufort said
Zeno shot out a small size sporadic lightning bolt that traveled to Satoshi…
But almost in a flash, Cross jumped up and blocked the spell with his body.
"Gahhh" Cross moaned in pain as even more electricity coursed throughout his body.
After the spell was over, Cross immediately put his arms around his body.
Zeno looked at his battered opponent who obviously couldn't fight anymore.
"Why do you still fight?" Zeno asked Cross
Cross put his hands on his knee's in order to help him stand up right.
"If you really want to know…" Cross said as he looked at Zeno. (I…can use this conversation to recoup…then I'll finish him off) Cross thought then smiled a bit. "There's a couple…reasons" Cross stated.
"The stone of moonlight?" Zeno asked
"Yeah…how do I know that I won't turn back to stone?! If I return to the mamodo world" Cross yelled
"The spell's effect has been broken. Zofis can't turn you into stone" Dufort explained to the young boy.
"And I'm just supposed to trust you?" Cross asked
Zeno glared at Cross.
"Since I'm going to burn your book soon anyways, I'll tell you a secret" Zeno told Cross.
"A secret?" Cross responded, his curiosity peaked.
"Dufort has the ability known as the answer talker…basically he knows the answer to a lot of questions, almost instantly…that's why you won't be able to hit him with a weak spell. So take his word for it, he's telling the truth" Zeno explained to Cross.
(That's how he dodged my attacks, knew what I was going to do…what a powerful duo. All the more reason…I must win) Cross thought. "I…see…It gives me peace of mind, to know that I won't turn back into stone…" Cross stated as his hands begun to glow.
"Zeno, fallback" Dufort told Zeno
Zeno did so, and went back to Dufort's side.
"He's going to cast a powerful spell…" Zeno stated
"Yeah, I've been storing up energy from within for we can do the same" Dufort responded
Satoshi's slate grey mamodo book was giving off a very bright glow.
Dufort's silver book was also giving off a very powerful glow.
(Why does he still fight?) Zeno wondered.
"Garbados Crosuruga!" Satoshi shouted
Cross summoned an enormous winged Goddess that had a cross for a face, two swords that looked like a t shape, and was made out of energy. The body was covered in a white plated armor that also appeared to be made out of energy.
"With this, I'll crush you!" Cross shouted.
"Reedo Dirasu Zakerga!" Dufort countered.
"Dufort! Show me the best way of defeating that spell!" Zeno ordered
Zeno summoned a large circular Yo-yo with many electric blades going around it. The small electric string formed on Zeno's finger, and Dufort told him to attack.
Zeno sent the yo-yo slightly upwards, then with a steep downward descent that went toward Cross's spell.
The winged Goddess put the two swords in a cross, and it soon unleashed a massive cross shape beam that collided with Zeno's attack.
The electric yo-yo was actually being pushed back, until Dufort told Zeno where to maneuver the yo-yo to where it would have the advantage.
(As I thought…these guys….they're strong…Hopefully they will be the ones to kick in Zofis's teeth) Cross thought as he started to smile. "Satoshi! I need more power! GIVE IT ALL THAT YOU HAVE!" Cross demanded
Satoshi did as he was told, and poured all of his heart energy into the book, which made the cross shape beam even larger.
"Damn…" Zeno said as his spell was starting to be pushed back, and the beam started to get closer and closer to Dufort's and Zeno's position.
"RAAHHHH!" Cross shouted as he was giving it his all.
The room was being lit up by the two spells combating one another.
"Withdraw it" Dufort told Zeno
"What?!" Zeno responded
"Our spell won't last much longer, we need more momentum. Withdraw your spell, then send it back as fast as you can" Dufort instructed.
Zeno thought it would be near suicide, since the large beam might smash into them before he could send it back, but Zeno trusted Dufort's word.
"Fine!" Zeno yelled as he flicked his wrist backwards, which sent the yo-yo into the wall behind them.
The cross shape beam now unhindered speed towards Zeno and Dufort at high speed.
Zeno then flicked his wrist and arm as hard as he could to send the electric yo-yo back into the fight.
Near seconds before Zeno and Dufort were engulfed in Cross's spell, the Large electric yo-yo smashed into the beam, and started cutting right through it.
"No, no way! I was winning!" Cross shouted in disbelief.
Zeno's spell soon destroyed the Cross shape beam and headed toward the winged goddess.
"Take a left swing, Zeno" Dufort told Zeno
Zeno swung his Yo-yo to the left side of the enormous goddess, but the Goddess used its energy sword to take a swipe at Zeno's spell.
"So it can defend itself" Zeno said, he then looked at Cross, who appeared to be controlling the goddess.
Cross swung his right arm, which in turn made the goddess swing her right arm and sword at Zeno's electric yo-yo.
Zeno had it collide head on with the goddess, and tried pushing the spell toward the ground.
(He's going to crush me with my own spell!) Cross thought, and nearly panicked, but used the goddess left sword to knock Zeno's spell away.
The Goddess started to regain attitude, away from Cross.
"Uppercut" Dufort told Zeno
Zeno did so
The electric yo-yo started to grind against the ground as it picked up speed and came down from below the Winged goddess.
(It's weak point!) Cross thought as he watched the winged goddess being nearly cut in half.
"It's not done yet!" Cross shouted as he closed his arms inside himself, making the winged Goddess stab herself with her own swords, but since the electric yo-yo was also partially inside her, ripping her to shreds, it ended up stabbing into the electric yo-yo. This canceled both spells out. The cancelling out created a massive explosion, which was right above Cross.
Cross embraced himself, and took minimum damage.
"He had his spell commit suicide?" Zeno stated in slight confusion. "…That's not fair" Zeno complained
"Zeno…" Dufort said as he looked down at Zeno
"Yeah?" Zeno replied
"I don't have much energy left. I can cast about 4 more spells" Dufort told Zeno
Zeno looked at Cross and Satoshi, who were both struggling to stand on their feet.
"It's alright, neither of them can fight" Zeno stated
"That's where your wrong…Zeno" Cross stated as he walked up to his partner
Dufort's eye's glowed, and his facial feature changed into a serious tone.
"Zeno, attack him now!" Dufort told Zeno
"What? Why?" Zeno asked as he looked at Cross and Satoshi to see that Satoshi was taking out a small piece of the stone of moonlight.
And Satoshi held it near him and Cross, which started to heal the both of them relatively quickly.
Zeno wasted a second by asking why, now he didn't hesitate at all. Zeno dashed at Cross and Satoshi at full speed, using his cloak to give him an even faster boost.
"RAHHH!" Zeno yelled as he rammed into Cross from behind, and sent Cross flying into Satoshi.
The two of them were sent about 20 yards away from Zeno.
The piece of moonlight was sent flying into the air, with a partial glow still going.
Zeno quickly grabbed it in the air, and quickly threw it back to Dufort.
Dufort easily caught it and placed it near his chest, but the glow only lasted about 3 seconds…which gave him one more spell to use.
Cross got back up on his feet and started laughing, as around half of his wounds were healed, and the rest of the wounds were partially mended, and stopped bleeding.
Satoshi got back on his feet, with his book glowing pretty brightly.
"He has around 13 spells to cast now" Dufort said to Zeno, Dufort walked up to him.
"…I guess I'll request your ability then, Dufort" Zeno told him
"Hah! It doesn't matter how much you two plan together now! My partner way more heart energy then yours does now!" Cross laughed at Zeno.
"Would you shut up already!" Zeno shouted at Cross
Cross was slightly shocked at Zeno's sudden outburst.
"I kicked your ass when you underestimated me the first time. Do it again, and I'll freaking KILL YOU!" Zeno warned Cross.
"Bring it" Cross shouted as he started to dash at Zeno with full speed.
Dufort jumped on Zeno's cloak, and started to instruct Zeno to what he should do.
"Fei Crosuku" Satoshi shouted
Cross's shins' began to glow with crosses on them, and he began to fly.
Using his enhancement spell, Cross charged at Zeno and Dufort at 3x his normal speed.
"Gigano Crosuru" Satoshi shouted.
Cross got within 10 feet of Zeno and Dufort and aimed his hand at them and unleashed a powerful cross shape beam.
Dufort had instructed Zeno what to do before hand, so Zeno quickly used his cloak to teleport him and Dufort behind Cross, which of course helped them dodge the spell.
"What! How…Teleportation!" Cross yelled as he tried to swing around and attack Zeno and Dufort.
Cross swung his right arm and opened his palm as he tried to hit Zeno with a different spell
"Now, break it" Dufort instructed
Zeno wrapped his right arm around Cross's right arm, and placed his right palm on Cross's shoulder, this made Cross's arm bent out straight and made it stiff. Zeno then took a step closer toward Cross, and Zeno used his left hand, to punch Cross in the elbow, effectively bending it in an abnormal position, as Zeno followed through his punch, the tendons inside Cross's arm could be heard snapping.
"AHHh, My arm!" Cross yelled as he then aimed his left hand at Zeno
Zeno once again punched Cross's right arm, which bent it all the ways, and broke it.
The amount of pain that traveled up Cross's spine made him flinch in pain. This gave Zeno another opening.
Zeno let go of Cross's right arm, and tried to go after his left arm as well.
(He's trying to break both my arms!) Cross thought in fear of losing the ability of using both of his arms.
"Aradom Crosuru" Satoshi responded
Since Cross couldn't aim his hand at Zeno, in such a close range, with the fear of getting his other arm broken, Cross had to use an aerial attack instead.
The 12 crosses appeared above Zeno and Dufort.
Zeno scoffed, as he punched Cross in the chest and sent him 10 feet away from him.
"Shoot!" Cross yelled.
Cross didn't hold back this time because of Dufort, he unleashed the full power of the energy beams…which didn't really matter.
All 12 energy beams fired, but Dufort knew how to dodge most of them, and in the end, Zeno's cloak was grazed, but Zeno and Dufort remained unharmed.
(Damn it! I have to use my strongest spell….but I don't think they'll give me that chance…) Cross thought as he held his broken arm, with his left arm.
Zeno and Dufort once again charged at Cross at top speed.
"Sorudo Zakeruga" Dufort chanted.
(A new spell!) Cross thought as he tried making distance between him and Zeno, but found that Zeno could easily outrun him.
Zeno extended his right hand and summoned a large lightning sword.
(You got to be freaking kidding me!) Cross thought as his eyes started bugging out. (I'll have to show him new spells as well) Cross thought
"Jan Ji Crosuru!" Satoshi shouted
Cross created a large energy like cross above him and used his left arm to throw it at Zeno and Dufort.
"Don't take it head on, deflect it" Dufort told Zeno
Zeno did as instructed and sidestepped the spell, and used the sword to only help deflect the spell, causing less energy to be consumed in order to block it.
"Bastard!" Cross yelled as he ordered Satoshi for another spell
"Baagasu Crosuruga!" Satoshi shouted.
A cross shape armament formed around Cross's left arm, and it had many small cross shape holes inside the Larger cross.
"Take this!" Cross yelled.
The Large cross around Cross's arms started to spin, and it started fire many smaller cross shape beams, that sped towards Zeno and Dufort.
"You can't block them all" Dufort told Zeno
"Shit…" Zeno muttered as he started dashing to the right and left, and swinging his sword in front of him into order to dodge and block most of Cross's beams.
(He's still closing in!) Cross thought as he kept on trying to stay on target.
Zeno was able to move within 20 feet of Cross, but the closer he got, the more he got sprayed by the oncoming beams.
Zeno's cloak started to tatter, Zeno was already hit directly by at least 30 small laser beams, Zeno kept Dufort completely protected by his cloak, but that too was starting to ware down.
"Zeno jump then dive!" Dufort told Zeno.
Making a mad dash straight at Cross, Zeno jumped into the air as high as he possibly could, so Zeno ended up touching the ceiling. Zeno then pressed his legs against the ceiling and propelled himself downwards, Zeno went so quickly the Cross couldn't keep up.
Zeno smashed into the ground while swinging his sword at Cross.
Cross just barely dodged it by a hair, but his left hand was caught inside the electric blade, luckily for him, the spell around his arm took most of the damage and was canceled out.
"You're dead!" Zeno shouted as he closed in the gap between him and Cross.
Zeno swung his sword down at Cross
"Croshirudo" Satoshi countered
Cross extended his left hand, and quickly summoned a large cross shape shield.
"Damn it!" Zeno shouted as he smashed his sword into the large shield, and failed to break through.
Zeno started to repeatedly swing his sword against the shield, trying to break though
"More power Satoshi!" Cross demanded
Satoshi poured more energy into the spell, making the shield slightly larger.
This made it even harder for Zeno to break through the shield, but Cross's field of vision decreased because the shield was in the way.
"Try all you like, you won't break through my shield this time!" Cross shouted with confidence.
And loud bang was heard, and it became silent all of a sudden…
"Give up?" Cross asked as he looked across his shield to see Zeno and Dufort was missing.
"I don't need to break through your STUPID ASS SHIELD!" Zeno yelled at Cross from behind him.
"What, again!" Cross said in shock.
"Zakerga" Dufort shouted.
Zeno placed his hand on Cross's backbone, and unleashed a powerful lightning blast that sent him flying into the sky, and he soon smashed into the ceiling.
(Damn…it that hurt…) Cross thought as he used his flying spell to turn around.
As soon as he did he seen Zeno staring right into his face, only a few feet away.
"Gigano Crosuru" Satoshi responded.
"Zakerga" Dufort countered.
Zeno and Cross practically touched each other's hands as they unleashed two powerful spells that instantly collided with one another and created a large explosion.
The explosion sent Zeno toward the ground, while it sent Cross back into the ceiling with his left hand all bloodied up and broken now.
Zeno's right hand was now also bloodied and beaten up from the close range explosion.
Zeno didn't let the pain of having his arm beaten deter him from his attack.
Zeno used his cloak to stop his decent, and he quickly flew back up to the ceiling where Cross finally started to fall back down to earth.
Zeno flew behind Cross once again, the boy was basically unable to fight since both of his arms had been rendered useless.
"Zakerga" Dufort shouted, while putting the remainder of his energy into the blast.
Zeno didn't put his hand on Cross's body this time, and he just unleashed a powerful Zakerga into Cross's back from 10 feet away.
The blast sent Cross spiraling downwards into the ground, which created a crater on impact.
After the smoke cleared, Cross was knocked out, and unable to fight any longer, even if Satoshi still had energy from within.
Zeno gently landed on the ground, and covered his right arm up in his cloak, to help it heal faster.
Zeno glared at Satoshi, who was fiercely protecting Cross's book.
Needless to say, Zeno quickly took the book away from Satoshi and knocked him out.
"It's over….finally" Dufort stated.
Zeno was now holding onto Cross's spell book, since Dufort didn't have enough energy to cast a spell, they couldn't burn it.
"The battle has only just begun" Zeno said as he laid down and grabbed out a blanket from Dufort's bag.
"You're going to sleep?" Dufort asked
Zeno looked at Dufort
"Of course, we're freaking trapped inside this room until you gain enough energy to blast us out of here" Zeno responded
Dufort looked at Cross, "What about him?" Dufort asked
"He's beaten to shit…but I doubt he'll try and attack us in our sleep" Zeno stated as he took off his worn out cloak, and used it as a pillow. Zeno took out a couple of snakes and ate them before he went to bed.
"Very well then…" Dufort responded as he laid down next to Zeno, and hid the silver book inside Zeno's mantle. (That mamodo…can take one hell of a beaten) Dufort thought as he went to sleep, but practically with one eye open because Satoshi was still able to move, since all Zeno did to him was punch him in the face.