Iblis and Foreman!
Versus!
Melody, Ash, Michael, Shi, Xander, and May!
Melody and Shi were tossed to the ground from another direct punch from Foreman. He was spending a much longer time dispatching them. Melody quickly got back up on her feet. Foreman was by far much stronger now then he was before. This body was much better watched after then the ones Melody and Shi smashed before. It looked more realistic, too.
He looked like he was in sixties. His face was covered in wrinkles. His left eye was hidden beneath an eye patch. Despite his ancient appearance he was well-developed. He was strong-looking and fit. He had on an impressive military jacket decorated with multiple badges and awards. He had a long cutlass on his side, but he had yet to have drawn it against Melody and Shi.
"Come on," said Foreman as he began to approach the duo who were currently trying to figure out a way out of this problem. "What happened to that youthful spunk you had a couple of minutes back? Do you lack both respect and discipline? If you were disrespectful enough to challenge me to a fight and smash an endless amount of my soldiers, don't you think you could at least be well-disciplined enough to fight me at your full power. What happened to that Soul Resonance you were just using? Let's try that again?"
Melody looked down at Shi. She didn't know if she had it in her for another Soul Resonance. Resonating with Shi wasn't easy work. Shi's thoughts tend to jump around and become distorted in that weird little head of his. Matching it up with him, tends to be difficult and not something she liked doing often.
Foreman leapt forward at them. Melody sent Shi outwards at Foreman's face. Foreman grabbed ahold of Shi's string and pulled Shi forward forcing Melody off of her feet and towards him. Foreman braced himself against the ground and fired a single punch at Melody. His fist collided with Melody's face sending her back to the ground. Foreman chuckled as he backed up and looked them. "Seriously, going against a witch without Soul Resonance? Are you dim or just crazy?"
"I'm crazy," said Shi, "Melody's just a cute face."
"At least its not about my butt," said Melody as she staggered back up to her feet.
"Well, that's cute too," said Shi.
Foreman began to approach Melody slowly. Melody lashed out with Shi sending it along with its sharp little blades digging into his clothes and skin. Foreman jumped backwards avoiding getting the blades stuck into his skin any deeper and destroying his last vessel. Foreman reached onto his waist and pulled his cutlass off of his waist and waved it around in front of him, preparing to launch an attack.
Foreman leapt from his spot towards Melody lashing out with his sword. Melody flipped backwards, leaving Foreman's blade alone and just swiping away at the air. Foreman groaned as he charged forward again with his blade, launching slice after slice after slice. Melody kept dodging each slice with a mixed amount of movements including flips, jumps, and dives. Melody had barely touched down on the ground from a precious flip when Foreman launched a vicious kick. Melody grunted as she was thrust backwards into the air and across the ground.
"Still capable of standing or do you want to want awhile for you to be strong enough to stand," said Foreman, "because I have all the time in the world. You guys probably only have a few more minutes. I mean, Marburg looks like he's just about done with your teacher."
"Oh, really," said Shi as his reflection glances over there, "Cause it looks like my teacher is teaching Marburg a few lessons in the school of hard knocks."
Foreman's face twitched with rage, "where's your respect? That man has endured thousands of years and he's still standing. I think he deserves more respect then what you are giving him!" Foreman lifted his blade into the air and brought it down with surprising power and speed.
"And once again the real heroes make a dramatic entrance to save the damsel in distress."
Ash stood in between Melody and Foreman with Xander up, pressing him against Foreman's cutlass. Xander was smiling and cocky, he was the one that said the last line. His sturdy gauntlet holding up well underneath the pressure of Foreman's powerful strike. "Want to try again? Because if you do I will make sure it will be your last," said Ash as he pushed away, sending Foreman backing away.
"Well," said Foreman, "it looks like the flies just keep on buzzing. It looks like I have some exterminating to do. Its odd how people who deserve the most respect like me always get stuck with the lackeys job. Do you want to help out, Iblis?"
Iblis turned away and turned her nose up at him, "Like I even need to. You seem like you are doing perfectly fine, why should I sully my wings with idiots like them?"
"Hey, Ash may be an idiot, but I'm not!" shouted Xander.
"Really?" asked Ash, "not even going to try to defend me? Besides this idiot just kicked your butt!"
"Next time you might want to omit the 'idiot' part," said Xander.
"I KNOW!" shouted Ash.
"Ash!" shouted Melody as she stood back up. "Thank goodness that you are here! Where are Michael and May?"
"What are we not good enough?" asked Xander, pretending to get annoyed, "I mean I would personally take May…or Michael over Ash, but…"
"What smells like cow crap?" asked Shi.
"ITS PIG CRAP!" shouted Xander.
"They are on the way," said Ash trying to get the subject back onto track, "we ran into them on the way here. Its just taking them a little bit longer to get here…"
"Did you also run into a pile of cow manure?" asked Shi.
"Pig…manure," said Ash, sheepishly, "and it was only puddle. Besides I offered Xander some of my cologne, but he refused to take it."
"I'm sorry, but I don't wear perfume," said Xander.
"For the last time it wasn't perfume, it was cologne!" shouted Ash.
"Nobody makes lavender scented cologne!" shouted Xander, "that's not a manly essence!"
Shi's reflection took a quick whiff of the air. "Ash smells like a woman!"
"I do not smell like a woman!" shouted Ash, "Lavender can be a very manly scent."
"Um…I'm wearing lavender," piqued in Melody.
"HAH!" shouted Xander, "you smell like Melody! You smell like a woman!"
"How do you know Melody doesn't smell like a man?" asked Ash, jumping to his defense.
"Because men don't wear lavender!"
"I'm a man and I'm wearing lavender!" shouted Ash, "therefore men wear lavender!"
"Hey!" said Xander, "the jury is still out on whether or not you are a man."
"Not that this isn't interesting," said Foreman as he waved his sword around in the air at the group, "but I feel very disrespected with being ignored like this. You are in my presence and interrupted my fight, so I would appreciate it if we could continue with it and then if you guys can still breathe you can continue your little argument about whether that little…child is a man or not."
"I AM A MAN!" shouted Ash.
Foreman dashed next to him and launched a swift strike into his abdomen forcing him backwards and through the air. "I don't care if you are a man or not. I do not tolerate disrespect from man, woman, or anything in-between. If you show me disrespect I will take you down without a second thought."
Ash quickly rebounded back up onto his feet. He swiftly ran over to Foreman and made a quickly punch at him with his bladed gauntlet intending to cut into Foreman, but Foreman quickly lashed out with his cutlass deflecting Ash's punch and sending it to the side with a quick slash. He then drove his knee forward at Ash as a follow-through. Foreman quickly backed away as Melody lashed out with Shi. Shi's hard bladed yo-yo form flew through the air at Foreman. The sharp daggers barely missing Foreman's rock hard body.
Foreman skidded safely to a stop a few feet away. He charged forward with his cutlass swinging wildly at his two opponents. Ash brought his gauntlet up to block and Melody quickly flipped backwards to put herself out of his range. Foreman's cutlass smashed into Ash's gauntlet forcing him skidding back across the floor. Melody avoided another close cut with a second flip.
"Xander," said Ash, "I think I'm going to have to perform another Soul Resonance just to keep up with this guy. He's nothing like the other witch we faced."
"Just our luck," said Xander, "I don't think you have enough blood to make it worth it. Right now only thing it would give you is a sharper blade."
"Good enough!" shouted Ash. "SOUL RESONANCE!" Xander's blade began to glow brightly. It began to grow longer, but skinnier. Its edge sharpened to perfection. Ash charged forward and a made a quick swing with his blade. Foreman swung downwards, intercepting the razor-sharp blade with his shining cutlass. He applied enough force onto his saber to send Ash's hand sprawling back to the ground. Suddenly Melody lashed out sending her yo-yo over at the duo, the blades extending from the childish yo-yo form spun rapidly at Foreman. Foreman brought his free arm up and blocked the yo-yo form. The sharp blades dug into Foreman's thick coat and even thicker layer of skin only managing to scratch it.
Foreman jumped backwards, putting more space in-between him and his opponents. "Only one scratch from this long of fighting. And you actually believe that you are an equal match for me." Foreman quickly turned his attention and his blade towards a new direction. He lashed out his sword at what at first seemed like nothing, but after his sword intercepted it and broke it down into pieces, was an arrow.
"Dang," said Michael as he quickly pulled another arrow out of May, "so much for element of surprise. Ash! Xander! You didn't distract him well enough!"
"You could've gotten here sooner!" shouted Xander, "its not like we told you to make a dramatic entrance."
"Oh, yeah, coming from Mr. 'real heroes make a dramatic entrance to save the damsel in distress'," said Shi.
"Better late then never," said Melody as she rearmed Shi and prepared to fire another blow. "Just keep applying the pressure!" Melody tossed Shi forward, its sharp metal blades swirling forward at Foreman.
"Better early then late," said Xander, just trying to contradict her.
"Shut up," said Ash as he charged forward. He prepared another punch with his bladed gauntlet as he approached Foreman.
"Adjusting for angle, wind velocity, speed of target, and…we're all set to fire, Michael," said May, "just launch."
"Cool," said Michael. "FIRE!" Michael released the bowstring firing a single well-aimed arrow positioned straight for Foreman's head.
Foreman frowned, uncomfortably. Avoiding three attacks was no easy business, not even for someone of his age and experience. He bent down and prepared to dodge backwards, when a strong wind swept through the temple blowing Ash, Shi, and Michael's arrow all aside with a mighty gust.
"How's that for respect, you old geezer?" asked Iblis as she floated over to them, still floating cockily on her large bed of air. "I saved you from a three-on-one attack. I guess 'heroes do always arrive at the most dramatic moments to save the damsel in distress', only this time a man is the damsel and a woman is the hero. That's how it should be after all."
Foreman quickly regrouped his thoughts and prepared his saber for another slash. "I would've preferred more respect with that last statement, but I guess since you saved me the trouble of dodging all three attacks, I'll let it slide. Are you going to help me squash these three like the insects they are? Or are you just going to rest on that comfy bed of air, you got there?"
"Why can't I do both?" asked Iblis with a yawn as she rolled onto her back, "these three don't look like much…but before we begin can I ask if any of you have seen Spectra? She's usually not gone for this long."
"I don't even know who Spectra is," said Ash as he prepped another attack.
"Same here," said Melody.
"I don't particularly care to say to a witch that I shot an arrow at the little girl she just asked about," thought May quietly.
"Nope, haven't seen this Spectra…person," lied Michael as he quickly drew back another arrow.
"Fine," said Iblis, "I guess we'll just have to track her down after we are done with killing, skinning, chopping up, and leaving these kids out to dry. I'm personally tempted to impale them and ship them over to the DWMA where that Lord Death would just leave us be for once."
"Don't talk about him in front of Marburg," said Foreman as he brought his sword in front of him, "they had a bit of a falling out a long time ago and I'm sure Marburg isn't interested in reliving it."
Michael, May, Ash, and Xander have all showed up just in the nick of time to save the day. But Iblis is now also entering the fray. This is turning out to be a bad, bad day! Keep on reading to find out more!
Also, much like both Saga of the Infinity Pirates and Iron Hammer of Justice. I have a contest for you OC creators. For those of you who are wondering who/what Marburg is based off of, it was Pestilence of the Four Horsemen! (I also accepted Death)! Special congratulations to Man in the Hat for guessing correctly. Anyways, onto the contest. With Pestilence being introduced the other Horseman are feeling left out...so I need War and Famine to be created! That's where you guys come in!