Episode 3: Courtyard Battle.
This wasn't looking good. Not one bit. Not only did this guy have a Mamodo. He also has some major baggage with Allissia. I couldn't help shake the feeling this was not going to be easy.
"Hey baldy!" OK I'll admit. Not my smartest or toughest line but I was drawing blanks.
"Why don't we take this outside. I'd hate to mess up this really nice house."
I had to get him outside somehow. Allissia was in no condition to cast any spells.
"Look kid. I'm in no mood to play with you." He said as his book started to glow. I looked around the giant house. Analyzed the surroundings. Then I got an idea, a risky idea, but an idea all the same.
"Spilon. Aim for that pillar to the left of him." I felt him give me a look of doubt.
"Just trust me." I opened my book that had already started glowing. Spilon focused on the pillar I said to aim at.
"I'm sure whatever your planning wont work, kid." He said with a high and mighty attitude."
"Genrai!" The familiar energy started gathering in the white-haired Mamodos eyes.
"Fire!" The beam shot and hit the destined target as planned. The electric beam shattered the pillar. The power of the shot caused large spices of stone to scatter and crash into multiple items in the mansion. One of the pieces went directly at Allissia. Luckily Tali was there. Her strong Mamodo body easily took the damage. She simply caught it and tossed it to the side. It looks like Allissia didn't even notice. At this point she was on here knees with her arms wrapped around herself. Before it seemed like she was just shaken up from this guy. Now it was like she wasn't even there. Like she was unconscious with her eyes open, but this wasn't the time to lose focus. I turned to look over at the rubble. Did my plan really work?
"I told you kid. It wouldn't work."
"What?!" I couldn't believe what I was looking at. The rubble and debris didn't even touch him, all of it just scattered around him. He couldn't be that lucky. I put my hands against my head and tried to figure it out. That's when I noticed something. The rubble around him. They were covered with claw marks. What ever made those had to be huge. At that moment I snapped my fingers and a huge smile appeared on my face.
"I've figured you out, baldy!" I yelled as I pointed at him. The suited man clenched his fists. Spilon slapped his hand against his face wondering how his partner could be such a spaz.
"My name is John! You little jerk." I opened the book once again and read the spell.
"Genrai!" Spilon fired another beam but this time directly at the suited man, John. After the first spell being cast the writing from the book set off an even stronger glow.
"Not done yet! Raishield!" Spilon charged towards the enemy. As he picked up speed the blue aura gathered around the front of him.
"Y'see I know that either your Mamodo is invisible, or he's so fast we cant see him. I also know that without you he's screwed at his chance at being king." The aftermath of both the spells gave me the exact results I needed. When the smoke cleared Spilon has a crushing grip on a large cobra like mamodo with a large muscular build as well as a long tail.
"All right!" I walked over closer to Spilon still holding on to the giant snake. John smirked and looked at me with what looked like rage. I get that a lot.
"That was clever kid, I'll give you that. How'd you figure it out?" He said voice full of rage.
"It all came to me when you didn't have a scratch on you from my first attack. Your Mamodo had to be strong and fast to protect you and still get out before I could see it. That's when I got the idea to attack twice." I folded my arms and nodded at Spilon. With a loud bellow he threw the giant reptilian Mamodo through the two giant front doors. John ran outside after his airborne Mamodo.
"Spilon, go after them and make sure they don't get back in. I'm gonna go check on Allissia." Spilon nodded and dashed out of the mansion.
I ran in the opposite direction towards Tali and Allissia. When I got to them Tali was down on one knee in front of her.
"Is she OK?" I asked looking at Tali.
"She's OK. Just shaken up." Tali said standing up. Tali waved her hand in front of her face to see if she would respond. Unfortunately she didn't move.
"What should we do? How can we snap her out of it?" I said sounding worried. Tali looked at me and gave me a small smile. She than turned back to Allissia and placed her hand to her cheek.
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to try to wake her up."
"Will it work!?"
"I'll tell to what won't work. You yelling in my ear." She said covering my mouth. I didn't even notice that I was talking that loud. She moved her hand and looked at me with the same smile. Why did she keep looking at me like that? I guess it had something to do with how persistent I was being.
"Well can you at least tell me why she reacted like this?" I as I stood up.
"Lets just say they have 'history' together. That's what she told me at least." I scratched my head not really understanding what any of that meant. Just seeing her like this. I felt so powerless. Like there was nothing I could do. Suddenly I felt a something tugging at my shirt. It was Tali.
"You should go help Spilon. I'll take care of Allissia." I must have been lost in thought.
"Yea. You'll be OK?"
"Don't worry. Now go!" She yelled pointing towards the door. I nodded and ran outside.
Spilon had held his own but I could tell that without his spells he wouldn't last against them. I got outside and looked around for Spilon. I went farther out into the courtyard. I hadn't really noticed it when we first showed up.
"It's about time!" A familiar voice called out. I looked around for a moment and noticed that something was blocking my shadow. I looked up to see Spilon coming straight at me. I jumped out-of-the-way at the last second. He hit the ground so hard he made a small crater. I ran over to the six-footer to see if he was OK.
"Hows it going, big guy." I said helping him up.
"It could be better." He managed to get on his feet but I could tell he had taken a lot of damage.
"So what are we dealing with?" I asked.
"I've only seen... two spells... so far."
I noticed that he was holding his side and breathing heavily. There was a purple liquid coming from the wound.
"Can you still fight?" I asked putting my hand on his shoulder.
"I'm... fine." I was about to take a look at his wound untill I saw the giant snake-like Mamodo coming right at us. I didn't have time to get out of there with Spilon hurt like this. Doing the only thing I could think of I jumped in front of Spilon.
"What are you doing?!" Spilon yelled.
"My body is stronger than yours!" I ignored what he was saying and prepared myself for the hit. I closed my eyes as tight as I could and spread out my arms.
"Ziotsu!" I slowly opened my eyes to see that I was at the front door again. That spell was really familiar. It was the spell Tali and Allissia used to teleport away the other day. I looked up to see Allissia standing over me. She kneeled in front of me and placed her hand on my shoulder.
"You OK?" She asked sarcastically. I simply smiled and nodded. She reached her hand out to help me up I gladly accepted. Something about her seemed different now. She was smiling. She was smiling at me. I felt my face heat up from the blushing I was doing. I noticed her face was just as red. We were staring at each other for what seemed like hours.
"Well isn't that sweet." A familiar voice called out waking us up from our trance.
"This guy again..." I noticed that our shadows had grown larger on the wall. The only thing strong enough to give off that kind of light was... Oh no!
"Raruk!" I turned around to the blinding light of his spell book. Due to the spell the giant snakes fangs started glowing and seeping a purple liquid.
Come to think of it was the same liquid that was coming from Spilons wounds.
"Ziosa!" Tali fired the multi colored beam at the giant snake knocking the Mamodo away.
"Allissia!" Tali yelled jumping into the air.
"Right!" The light from Allissias grow even more brilliant.
"Gigano Ziosa!" It was amazing how such a small Mamodo could handle such a huge attack. This spell was obviously stronger than the ziosa spell. The giant beam was beautiful the way it was mixing colors. I felt like I was at a rave. The laser hit the Mamodo a second time causing it crash in to john.
"That had to be our easiest battle yet." Allissia said closing her book. She was back to her normal smug attitude.
"Glad to see your OK." I said smiling.
"Your two are really starting to piss me off! Rasaruk!" Allissia had her back turned to the incoming claws that were amplified by the spell. I managed to push her out-of-the-way, knocking her to the ground.
Hearing the sound of flesh being ripped was the worst sound I could imagine. Feeling it wasn't that great either. I felt the warm red liquid flow down my sides. Ignoring the large amount of pain I gripped the giant claws as tight as I could. The struggling I was doing caused more blood to seep out. The large snake tried to get free but I wasn't letting it go anywhere. I looked over at Allissia and noticed her staring at me, she was covering her mouth. It must have been the sight of me bleeding profusely in front of her. Just as I was about to speak I was rudely interrupted by the bald man.
"What is wrong with you kid?!" He yelled out. "You don't even know this women and yet you would shed blood for her! What reason could you have possibly have for protecting her?!" I dropped my head and gave a small chuckle which grew into a loud laugh.
"Your right. I don't know her." I said lifting my head. The look of anger that was on Johns face soon turned into a look of confusion. His Mamodo even look at me strange.
"But... That doesn't mean I need a reason to protect her." I could feel my body giving out on me from all the blood I had lost.
"Yea, she can be really smug and her attitude isn't the greatest. She'll come to your house and attack you and then leave without a word, but that's beside the point. The point is that she came to me for help. Help only a friend could give." I fell to my knees that made a tiny splash in a small puddle of blood. My grip started to loosen and the giant snake began to escape.
"Allissia is my friend..." I suddenly felt a hand on my left shoulder, then on my right. I looked to my left to see Spilon holding my book and Allissia on my right. I noticed her face was covered in tears that were still flowing from her eyes.
"... And as long as I draw breath I will protect her!" I stood up and fully loosened the hold I had with my right arm. I reached over to Spilon who handed me the already proudly glowing book. Spilon grabbed the snakes right arm so that I could loosen my grip on it. Allissia opened the book for me. The light that the book was emitting could light a football field.
"The third spell!" I saw the fear in the enemy teams eyes.
"Genraiga!" Spilon reached out his right arm without loosening the grip he had on the snake Mamodo. His hand couldn't have been less than an inch away from the snake-like Mamodo. The electric energy began to build in the palm of his hand.
"Forget this!" John said trying to make an escape.
"Fire!" The concentrated energy exploded into a giant cannon. The attack got a direct hit on the Mamodo and sent it flying towards john who didn't get far. The aftermath from the explosion left enormous crater in the center of the courtyard. When the smoke and dust cleared john was unconscious and their spell book was already burning.
"Well... looks like... we did it..."
I woke up a couple of hours later to the sun beaming on me from the spaces between the curtains. I sat up and noticed Allissia asleep in a chair next to the bed I was laying in. My body felt tense and hard to move. I placed my hand on my side and felt the bandages that were wrapped around me. It didn't look like the hospital. It looked more like a room in the mansion.
"Your finally awake." I looked over at Allissia. She was rubbing her eyes.
"Yea." I said leaning back against the headboard. I looked at Allissia's hands and noticed the the were dirty and holding a small roll of bandages. She must have wrapped me up herself. The room was silent. Neither of us could think of anything to say.
"I wish I knew a proper way to thank you." Allissia said breaking the awkward silence.
"Oh, it's no big deal-"
"Yes it is!" She said cutting me off. She clinched her fist crushing the small roll of bandages. I put my hand on top of hers and held it in mine.
"If it wasn't for you and Spilon I probably wouldn't be here." She tightened her grip on my hand slightly. She stood up still holding my hand and leaned in towards me. I was confused on what she was about to do, that is until I felt two soft lips on my cheek. This lasted for about a minute. After she stopped I could feel the heat from me blushing. It could fry an egg! I looked up at her to see that she was blushing as just as much as I was.
"I uh... We should check on the others." She simply nodded as I got up and got dressed.
She lead us to the room Spilon and Tali were resting in. Spilon was sitting in the center of the room with his legs crossed, shirtless, eyes closed, and wrapped in bandages. Tali was asleep under all the covers on the bed.
"I see you two are alright." Spilon said opening his eyes.
The covers on the bed started moving. Tali must have woken up after hearing us talk. She peaked her head out and I saw her give me the same smile as before. That's when I noticed that Allissia and I were still holding hands.
"I'm sure you finally realized why I keep smiling at you." Tali said.
"Yea. It's because you saw how much I cared about her. Inst it." She nodded, yawned and fell back asleep.
"You gonna be OK, big guy?" I said opening the door.
"I'll be fine. Where are you two going?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"Nowhere in particular." That being said we exited the room and I closed the door behind us.