The Apocalypse Begins!
The Unleashed Power of the Students!
"Not us! The kids!" shouted Rochelle. Her words echoed in the domed room attracting the attention of the other combatants. Foreman, Iblis, Michael, Melody, and Ash all turned their heads to notice the large green ball of fog sailing at them. Iblis quickly created a powerful draft upwards to send herself careening out of harm's way.
Melody didn't know what to do. Her legs felt frozen from fear. The large ball of green fog had so much magic imbued in. It was like watching a train heading straight for her at full speed. What could she do to avoid such a powerful attack? From the looks of Michael and Ash they were thinking the same thing. Their legs also seemed glued to the spot. They all cringed and awaited the inevitable impact of the possibly deadly green fog.
It felt as if an eternity passed, all of them standing perfectly still in terror of the witch that supposedly rivaled both Kishins and Lord Death in might, but in reality only a few seconds passed. Then a few more seconds. Then more. Ash was the first open his eyes to see what had happened, why the impact of the green fog hadn't occurred. "No…"
Standing in front of them, close to the green fog was Saul. His arms outstretched, he was using Rochelle as another part of a shield that had protected the kids from the green fog. The ball of green fog had exploded on impact with him, sparing the kids from the dangerous onslaught.
"Looks like…some people just never learn…their lessons, eh Delilah?" asked Saul as he collapsed onto the floor in front of the kids. Rochelle clattered to the ground as well. Her weapon form, not to mention her Death Scythe strength, had shielded her from the deadly effects of the green fog before, but this heavily concentrated ball of green fog even took her strength away. The boomerang lit up in a brilliant red light as it changed back into the young woman.
"SAUL!" shouted Shi as the small yo-yo's reflection opened its eyes. This caused the rest of the group to open their eyes and witness the sight. A collective group of gasp was heard in the room.
"Saul?" asked May, halfway expecting this to be another one of his sick jokes. Faking his death in front of his students just to get a small sigh of relief when they see him jump up after a few seconds.
"Rochelle?" said Melody as she watched the former weapon lie on the ground. Her nearly unblemished slightly dark skin wasn't like that at all anymore. Her skin had become a pale sickly hue and red dots covered her face and arms. Her eyes were firmly shut and her small pinkish lips had dried up and were curved inward.
Ash shook himself free from his spot ad ran forward to his two dying teachers. The green fog was meant for a single burst, not to stay around after, so it had safely lifted from the air around them. Ash dove to the ground and quickly pressed two finger against their necks next to a major blood vessel. He sighed with relief, "they are alive…for now, but I don't know how long they will last without medical attention."
"Or with three witches staring us down," said Michael as he glanced from side to side at the three witches who were standing around them looking at them with greedy eyes as if they were vultures eyeing the last piece of carrion.
"Guess that means we'll just have to take these punks out quickly then," stated Xander as Ash stood up and faced Iblis.
"Out or respect for the soon-to-be dead," said Foreman as he looked down at Saul and Rochelle both lying motionlessly, "I will let you guys have the option to leave if you do not attack me or Marburg. However, I'm going to have to insist that they stay here so Marburg can finish up his experiment."
"Hey!" shouted Iblis, "what about me! You'll let them leave here alive even if they killed me!"
"It's a matter of respect," said Foreman, "and I respect three little kids who attack an all powerful witch despite the fact that their teacher is dead more then…" Foreman's line was cut short as Ash drove Xander's blade straight through his stomach and out the other side of his clay dummy.
"You can keep your damn respect," said Ash quietly, "I'M OUT FOR REVENGE!" Ash spun about and launched a powerful kick straight to Foreman's head sending the damaged marionette spinning about across the floor until it finally crashed against stopping its spin. Its head was now caved in, its gut had a hole in it big enough for a fully grown man to stick his arm into, and the life had disappeared from its eyes.
"Yeah," shouted Xander, "this is an Ash that I like! Gut him again!" His reflection was shown in the newly bloodied blade cheering Ash on, as if he had already forgotten about his two teacher lying on the ground.
"Serves that bastard right!" shouted Iblis with a cocky laugh, "saying that I don't deserve his respect! Hah, it looks like you both dead and old, how much respect do you get now! NONE!" shouted Iblis she walked over to him, a large glob of spit hanging from her mouth. She launched it at full speed. It splattered all over his face. "Now! That my vendetta against that arrogant old guy is finished which one of you is going to occupy my time?"
Iblis blinked her eyes. The little girl who was standing in the middle of the three before was gone. She looked over at Marburg, apparently the little girl had believed she could take him on. What fool-hearted heroism. Iblis turned her eyes on Michael, "apparently its going to be you and me."
"Did you forget about little old me!" shouted Ash as he jumped up ready to fight. "I'm still alive and kicking!"
"ASH!" shouted Michael, "don't forget about Saul and Rochelle, you said it yourself they are still alive. Go find a mirror or something and contact Lord Death to get him to send a helicopter or something down here!"
Ash reluctantly spared a second look over his shoulder and down at Saul and Rochelle. He could faintly make out their chests rising and falling. He bit his tongue and turned around and began to head out the door in order to make the call. "If she's not dead by the time I get back, I'll take care of her for you!"
"Trust me," said Michael calmly as he turned around and faced Iblis, "she'll be dead. May?"
"You betcha," said May, "time to pierce her soul with our…"
"SOUL RESONANCE!" shouted the two in unison. May's bow form began to glow violently. The glowing light began to creep up Michael's arm and around the rest of his body.
"First time we used Soul Resonance out in the field," said Michael.
"Its going to be the first time we killed a witch using Soul Resonance out in the field, too," said May slyly.
"More like the first time you got killed while using Soul Resonance!" shouted Iblis as she conjured up another powerful wave of air that seemed to circle around her body. "You shoot a thousand arrows, I'll just deflect them all!"
"No problem," said Michael as he aimed May directly for Iblis' head, "cause that means another 113 will still pierce your heart." Michael released the bow sending multiple arrows all howling through the air aimed at Iblis. The arrows hit the powerful bubble of air that was wrapped around Iblis' body, they began to bounce off by being repelled by the powerful gusts of wind circling her.
"Hah ha!" shouted Iblis as she stood amidst the powerful winds, "you can't even touch me. You should've gotten in a cheap shot like your friend did against Foreman! I'm nearly invincible now that my power has returned to its max! There's no way you can get in a single shot against me in the time you have!"
"Look again," said Michael with a smile, "the center of the mass of arrows."
Iblis shrugged it off and stared at the center. Because of the raining continuous onslaught of arrows she couldn't have noticed that single arrow, but now she did. That one single arrow was way too close for comfort. Whenever a gust of wind blew it to the side it would rebound into one of the ones next to it and be redirected down the center and back down its original path. Iblis smiled though now that she knew where it was it would be simple to dismiss it! Iblis summoned forth a huge wind and slammed it to the side. Sending the arrow careening to the side and into the wall, puncturing a small hole in it just like the others.
"Told you, you can't touch me!" shouted Iblis, "Neither you nor your puny arrows can lay a finger on me!"
"What about the ceiling?" asked May, her reflection had on a cocky and surefire smile across it.
Iblis looked around her. The numerous arrows had all pierced the wall, each one jutting into the wall creating a small hole. One on top of the other until the holes basically became a straight line up and down. The same thing occurred with the ceiling. In her frenzy to redirect all of the arrows away from her she had destroyed the stability of the walls behind and the ceiling above her. She only had enough time to look up and see the ceiling collapse upon her. Her wind was nowhere near strong enough to repel such a heavy force. She let out an air piercing yell as the ceiling drove straight down, bring her smack down into the floor beneath it.
"That's what I'd call a sandwitch," said May taking the opportunity to make a small pun.
"I'm sorry what?" said Michael, "I don't get it."
"Because the ceiling and the floor are like the slices of bread and Iblis, the witch, is like…oh, forget its not funny if I have to explain it," said May.
"It wasn't funny in the first place either," said Michael.
"Instead of talking about this shouldn't we help Melody?" asked May.
"Right," said Michael. He turned around and was about to take a step forward but something was holding his feet in place.
"I'm not done playing you, yet," said a female voice.
(-With Melody and Shi-)
"HOW DARE YOU!" shouted Melody as she lashed out using Shi's metallic blade. The small compact yo-yo was completely caught on fire that it appeared to be more of a ball of flames on the end of a strong rather then a small toy with metal blades jutting out of it. Marburg easily dodged the attack by backing up a few feet as he watched the burning blades pass right in front of his eyes.
"Really?" asked Marburg as he stood back, "Saul and Rochelle. A brilliant Meister and a Death Scythe couldn't even wound me, but you? A female who barely hit puberty and a…I'm sorry what exactly are you supposed to be? Are you a male with an IQ of seven or a female with an IQ of seven?"
"Doesn't matter!" shouted Shi, "I'm still going to kill you for killing Saul before I could beat the crap out of him!" The large blade extruding from the yo-yo came down merely inches away from Marburg's left shoulder.
"Shi!" shouted Melody, "he could've just killed our teachers! And you are upset with him because you didn't get to beat them up? Be serious at a time like this!" Melody spun around and launched Shi outwards. Shi's long yo-yo string wrapped around Marburg's legs, pinning him to one spot.
"I AM!" shouted Shi as his yo-yo form closed in on Marburg's legs about to get the first hit. With the string so tight, there was no way Marburg could avoid this attack…or so Shi thought.
Marburg chuckled. A large gust of green fog exploded around him forcing Shi's string to loosen up and allow him to escape from Melody's and Shi's attack. Marburg leapt up into the air. "I think you two are already sick. You two must be completely delirious if you think you can even stand a chance against me!" Marburg lifted his hand into the air. More of the green fog began to billow around it creating a large dense bubble of air. "I think its time for you to witness what truly makes me a witch to be feared!" As Marburg reeled back about to toss the impressive ball of deadly toxins it began to flicker. The bubble began to bulge at weird and random places. Finally it exploded in place covering Marburg in the green fog.
"What!" shouted Marburg as he stepped back. He snapped his fingers trying to create a second ball of fog, but it wouldn't work the fog just wasn't leaking out of his body any more. "What did you two do to me?"
Yosh! I'm back on track…for the most part. Anyways, I have to say this was probably one of my favorite chapters to write for this story thus far. I even left in a few special surprises hinting at future chapters for those of you people who are looking! Normally I would go into my somewhat stupid jokes and hints, but this time since tragedy was so heavy in this chapter, I'm going to take a moment of silence…
Also a quick question. May's sandwitch pun? Yea or nay? I actually kind of liked it.
Another question: I've been thinking about changing the name of the story where its less Michael-centric. Any ideas?