Chapter 60 the Second Wave
Authors Note: It was suggested that I make a list, since I have so many teams. This was a good idea. Unfortunately this chapter somehow lost nearly 3000 words, and so I had to restart….which for me at least is a real bummer. Well time to give what is really, really overdue. Enjoy!
Zatch and Zeno's assembled team.
Kiyo-Zatch
Dufort-Zeno
Dr. Riddles- Kido
Yopopo- Djem
Uri- Penny
Li-en- Wonrei
Megumi- Tia
Folgore- Kanchomé
Haru- Sugino
Mr. Goldo- Danny
Mr. Sunbeam- Ponygon
Apollo- Rops
Zofis's army, BIA (Books burned in action). Remind me if I'm accidently using a mamodo whose book was already burned. It's been a while since I've worked on this story _
Baraho- Beaten by Zeno
Zami- Beaten by Zeno
Ninin- Beaten by Zeno
Domu- Beaten by Zeno
Meumutsume- Beaten by Zeno
Buton- Beaten by Zeno
Giriko- Beaten by Zeno
Centipede mamodo- Beaten by Zeno
Denshin- Yopopo
Kalura-Ponygon
Paramakion- Wonrei
Erujo- Zatch, Zeno &Tia
Babiru- Probably killed by Zeno's spell. Book is burned.
Boru- Tia
Dogmos- Zatch& Zeno
Ganz- Zatch& Zeno
Bamu- Zatch& Zeno
Gelios - Zatch
Alm- Zatch
Dalmos- Dufort
20 spell books burned by Zatch's group…There were 47 1000 year old mamodo in Zofis's army, not including Robnos and Byanko. Look forward to seeing them all burn. Holy shit, a lot of books were burned by Zeno^^.
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The sun had begun to rise, everyone was still asleep. Except for one early bird called Zatch.
"Uhh…" Zatch responded while slowly sitting upright, and taking a look at his surroundings.
The other mamodo children around Zatch were still asleep, and the room was still pretty dark inside.
(…I got to go to the bathroom) Zatch thought.
Zatch tried his best to get off the bed without waking anyone up, and get out of the room.
Zatch started to relieve himself, and started his daily routine, which was actually normal for him to do every day. He closed his eyes, and started to sense if there was any enemy mamodo nearby, he didn't sense any. He then started to sense his ally mamodo auras, to see where everyone else was, it seemed that every other mamodo was still inside their rooms. For some strange reason though, Zatch couldn't sense his brother's presence.
(Where's Zeno?) Zatch thought, while walking out of the bathroom.
"Zeno?" Zatch whispered though out the hotel.
Zatch sneaked down the hallway, causally opening up every door he came across, because he didn't know which room was Dufort's room.
Zeno would take a few moments to peek through each room, and then quietly leave before anyone noticed.
Zatch went and peeked into everyone's room, until he realized that he was at the end of the hallway. The last room, which was Dufort's room.
"Zeno?" Zatch whispered as he entered Dufort's room.
Zatch didn't sense his twin brother still, but upon closer inspection, it looked like there was a pretty large lump in the middle of the bed. Zatch thought it was Dufort.
"Dufort…wakeup" Zatch said, as he got on top of the bed and pushed his hands against the lump in the bed, to find that there was no body in the bed.
"…" Zatch's face went blank. (Where's ZENO!) Zatch thought in surprise.
Moments later, a loud voice could be heard throughout the entire house, screaming out "ZENO!"
"ZENO! Where are you!" Zatch yelled throughout the house, while running into the living room, then into the kitchen, then outside.
Of course, Zatch started waking everyone up inside the hotel.
"What…is he doing…this early?" Kiyo said as he got up, very pissed that Zatch was going around the hotel screaming his head off.
"Kiyo! Kiyo!" Zatch yelled, while barging inside of Kiyo's room.
"Dang it Zatch, people are trying to sleep!" Kiyo yelled at the boy.
"Zeno is missing! And Dufort is gone too!" Zatch exclaimed.
"...He…didn't go on his own did he?" Kiyo asked.
"…Yeah…we have to hurry! Zeno isn't back yet, something went wrong!" Zatch tried to explain.
"Of course something went wrong. Zeno freaking went to get first dibs on Zofis!" Kiyo yelled in anger.
"Come on, we have to go, get up, get up!" Zatch begged
"Damn it, we have to get the others first…Let's not ruin our plan before we even had the chance to make it work in the first place" Kiyo explained, as he quickly got out of bed to have the lousy job of waking everyone else up from bed.
About 20 minutes later, Kiyo was able to wake everyone up out of bed, and tried to explain the situation.
Zatch was still worried about his brother, and was ready to dash to the ruins as fast as possible. Zatch had a small red book bag full of supplies such as water and energy bars.
"We don't even need to fight anymore more. Now that Zeno is taking care of Zofis" Folgore said in a optimistic attitude.
"So we don't need to fight those scary enemies anymore, Folgore?" Kanchomé asked.
"We don't have to worry anymore, Kanchomé" Folgore stated with a large happy smile.
"If Zofis were defeated, then Zeno would be here gloating about it. You idiots" Sugino responded in an angered tone. Sugino was obviously pissed that Zeno left to fight Zofis by himself.
"If he gets hurt, or better yet, has his book burned. It'll serve him right" Penny coldly stated, in a stuck up tone.
That statement made Zatch even more worried.
"It's true that Zeno put himself in great danger. Also he ruined our plan A, for a coordinated effort in working together to bring down Zofis." Dr. Riddles stated, as he pondered what their next step should be.
"Why are we waiting here! Everyone is awake. Let's get moving already!" Zatch exclaimed, as he started to walk out of the hotel.
Kiyo quickly grabbed Zatch by his small red book bag, and stopped him from leaving.
"What is it? Why stop me?!" Zatch yelled.
"Zatch we have to wait for the others to get ready" Kiyo stated, as he tried calming the blond hair child down.
"He's my brother! I'm not waiting. If he needs me…" Zatch said as tears started to swell up in his eyes.
"Zeno is the strongest mamodo inside that fortress, he'll be fine Zatch" Kiyo explained, as he let Zatch go, and handed a couple fruits for breakfast. "We'll meet up with Zeno, and he'll be fine" Kiyo told Zatch, as he went to the kitchen table to try and gobble down his own breakfast.
"That's right Zatch, we'll find Zeno together. Just give the group that you trusted, 10 minutes to get ready" Dr. Riddles said while cooking breakfast for everyone.
Megumi was also helping out in the kitchen.
"Besides if Zeno is hurt, I'll just heal him Zatch. So don't worry about it" Tia told Zatch, in an effort to comfort him.
"Unu, thanks Tia" Zatch said in a much more calm manner.
About 15 minutes later, everyone had eaten their breakfast, including Zatch. Also everyone had packed supplies with them, and was ready for a hard fight ahead.
It took another 20 minutes for Zatch and the team to reach the ruins.
Trying to hurry up the process of getting closer to the top of the Zofis's lair faster. Zatch had used his cloak to carry his allies up the Cliffside, 4 at a time. Which made a 20 minute rock climb, only 2 minutes long.
The group was now in the area where Zatch and Zeno had a battle with Dalmos. Observing the area, no enemy was in site. Zeno wasn't in site either. The room was still pretty much destroyed.
"It looks like we've made it here without being discovered." Dr. Riddles stated, with Kido sitting on his shoulders.
"I don't sense anyone close to us" Zatch responded, while he had his eyes closed.
"Can you sense Zeno?" Kiyo asked.
"Yeah, he's much further into the castle then we are…And" Zatch responded.
"And what?" Djem, Kanchomé, and Sugino replied.
"There's another mamodo close to him" Zatch stated.
"Is it that Lilia girl, you met earlier?" Penny asked.
"I don't know. I don't really know Lilia's presence…I just know Zeno's" Zatch explained, as he started to walk ahead of the group, with Kiyo trailing behind him.
"You need me to carry you old man?" Danny asked Mr. Goldo.
"Danny boy, you shouldn't even offer. I won't slow anyone down." Mr. Goldo stated, as he lit a cigar, and walked in front of Danny.
"Don't call me Danny boy. Sheesh, I was being nice" Danny complained as he walked next to the old man.
A couple of the children who were younger then Danny giggled at Danny being called a boy, like Yopopo, Djem, Kanchomé, and Rops.
"Everyone stick together and don't get separated" Apollo warned everyone, as he took lead in front of Zatch.
"Everyone will come out of this, if we work together!" Dr. Riddles proclaimed as he walked besides Kiyo and Apollo.
"Right!" The rest of the group yelled in unison.
"You don't need to be so loud about it!" Kiyo yelled back at the team.
The team continued their way through almost the maze like ruins, where they didn't even meet one single opponent stopping their path. It continued like this for about 30 minutes until finally the group made their way to 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.
"Where is Zofis's army? We haven't faced a single mamodo" Mr. Goldo sighed, as he lit up another cigar.
"This isn't groovy" Mr. Sunbeam stated, with a worried look.
"Maybe they ran away?" Kanchomé asked in a hopeful tone, and then looked at Zatch for an answer.
"They're still here Kanchomé…" Zatch told his friend, while looking around for any present danger.
"It is strange…what do you think? Are they setting up some sort of trap?" Apollo asked Kiyo and Dr. Riddles.
"I feel as if this was becoming too easy" Kiyo admitted, then looked at the other end of the room, which was a fair distance away.
Zatch didn't really seem to care about any of that, because he soon spotted a piece of Zeno's silver hair laid out on the staircase.
Everyone practically followed the blond hair child up the stairs to he stopped halfway from the entrance into the castle.
"Zeno was here. We'll be able to see him soon" Zatch said in a happy tone.
"That's correct, but you won't be seeing him, ever again" A voice echoed throughout the room.
Everyone looked up to see a mamodo hovering in the air. It was hard to tell if it was a boy or girl, since he was wearing a dress, and makeup that made his face practically white. He had two lines going down from his eyes. His devilish smile set everyone at unease. The way his face looked, made him look like some sort of evil clown. He was wearing a white dress that had a red line going down the center of it.
(I didn't notice him until now?!) Zatch thought as he glared at the mamodo.
"You must be Zofis" Dr. Riddles announced.
Zofis glared at Dr. Riddles, "You're the pest that had been scurrying around my lair these past weeks." Zofis growled.
"How were you watching us without any of us noticing?" Apollo asked, as he pulled out his spell book.
"Fools, I've had my eye on you since you entered my castle" Zofis stated in a gloating like fashion. "Getting rid of you should be easy" Zofis stated, as he raised his right arm, and aimed at the bridge.
"Shit! Everyone run for it!" Kiyo shouted, as he pointed towards the exit on the other side of the bridge.
Zatch dropped Zeon's hair strand, and grabbed Kiyo's hand, as he started a mad dash up the stairs.
"Radomu" Someone called out.
"Too late" Another voice called out, as a dark figure appeared in front of Zofis, and his right hand, which was forming a dark red fire ball.
"What?" Zofis yelled as it was too late, and he released his spell at the dark figure, which caused the fire ball to explode in midair.
The dark figure disappeared into a few strands of white burning hair.
(Zeno's scarecrow) Zatch thought, as he looked and aimed at Zofis.
"Kiyo!" Zatch yelled out.
"Zakeruga" Kiyo shouted out.
Zatch unleashed a powerful condense lightning blast that went towards Zofis at an incredible rate.
"DAMN!" Zofis yelled, as he braced himself, and was hit directly by the spell, which sent him spiraling down into the dark abyss. Pieces of white cloth could be seen floating slowly down into the darkness, which confirmed Zofis, had taken damage.
Everyone lost visual of Zofis, and the bridge remained intact.
"Everyone, we should get move forward as quickly as possible. Failing to destroy this bridge wasn't part of Zofis's plan. We now have the advantage!" Dr. Riddles yelled out, as he continued to run up the stairs, along with everyone else.
Soon enough, everyone made it across the bridge, and into the main entrance towards the stone of moonlight.
Meanwhile…
"Damn it!" Zofis shouted, as he was already at the stone of moonlight, staring at 4 mamodo.
"You failed to split them up Zofis, what do you want us to do now?" A male voice asked. The stone of moonlight shined, and showed a gigantic dark figure, which had massive horns. Nothing else was visible, except for a much smaller figure next to the giant mamodo.
"Vile…Pamoon, Tsaolon, Belgim E.O" Zofis announced. "You are the four supreme mamodo. You are to protect the stone of moonlight at all costs!" Zofis demanded.
"Zofis…" A voice growled.
Zofis looked over to see a mamodo child around the age of 10. He had blond hair, in a star pattern. He had baby blue eyes, with two mamodo lines running down his eyes to his chin. He was wearing a metal armor that covered his most of his body, to the point, that it looked like he had peg legs for feet. He had a star symbol on his chest armor, and a 6 pronged star on his back.
"Hmm?"
"What would happen to us…if the stone was destroyed?" Pamoon asked in a worried manner.
Zofis let out a devilish smile. "You all would turn back into stone" Zofis warned, then walked away.
"I won't let that happen…" Pamoon responded, as many golden stars started to hover around the area.
"Ohh, the pretty stars are back!" An childlike voice exclaimed.
"Stay focused Belgim!" Pamoon yelled at another large mamodo, who was sitting in a stone chair.
"Make them dance! I'm so bored." Belgim responded.
"You'll be able to see them dance real soon. Just stay focused, or you'll be bored…forever" Pamoon warned the large mamodo.
"That doesn't sound like fun" Belgim E.O stated, then leaned his head against his arm.
"You kidding? Fighting this many strong opponents is exactly what we need to enjoy our time" A muscular man said. He was wearing a Kong Fu uniform, and was holding onto a dark green spell book.
"This isn't some game! For whatever those present mamodo fight for. Our resolve is much stronger. I will not be trapped in stone…ever again!" Pamoon yelled out.
"I agree with Pamoon, let's finish them off as quickly as possible" Tsaolon stated as he let the stone of moon light shine on him.
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The four supreme mamodo stayed there, in the center of the room, letting the stone of moonlight shine on them, as they waited for their enemy to appear.
…Meanwhile with Kiyo's group.
"We still haven't seen a single enemy mamodo" Kido said, as he was still sitting on Dr. Riddles shoulder.
"Yes Kido, they must be gathering in force, to fight us in one go… Our teamwork is going to be inessential to make it out of the battle to come" Dr. Riddles explained.
"I'll heal anyone who gets hurt" Tia stated.
"I'll give you guys cover using Poruk" Folgore said while holding out his yellow book.
"Danny boy can take any higher levels spells, which you kids can't beat on your own." Mr. Goldo stated.
"Higher level? I may be a mamodo, but I still feel pain you know" Danny growled.
"Everyone stay focused, I see an opening up ahead" Kiyo said, as spotted a large beam of light traveling down the hallway.
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Author's Note: I've been stuck on what I should do to make my story/ Zofis Arc different from Raiku's. So yeah, this chapter broke my author's block. And I'm also starting this story back up again. So, next chapter will include a more content then this one. I wonder if I still have fans/readers for this story?