RUNE FACTORY ARENA
CHAPTER 44
THE FINAL FOUR!
Battle-1 Day-19
The Legendary Earthmate: Raguna
VERSUS
The Great Emperor: Ethelberd
"The Battle of Fate and Destiny!"
"Raguna!" Ethelberd yelled as he firmed his ground on the Arena sands, "Finally! The Moment I've been waiting for in this stupid Tournament! I finally face you!"
"I don't want to fight you, Ethelberd!" Raguna responded, "I don't want this blood feud to continue!"
"This isn't just a mere blood feud, idiot!" Ethelberd roared, "This is our fate, our battle! We will always be enemies! It was predestined! This was meant to happen!"
"You seriously can't believe that!" Raguna groaned, "Come on Ethelberd! Let's not do this!"
"Are you afraid I can beat you!?" Ethelberd taunted,
"With your current power!? HA!" Raguna scoffed, "No way!"
"I knew it." Ethelberd mumbled, "I knew my power was no where close to yours.."
"What?" Raguna muttered, quite confused since Ethelberd would exalt himself very much.
"My Power and yours were on polar opposites!" Ethelberd yelled, "It's all because of that Stupid Blitz Faust Spell! But now... I can defeat you! Grrrrrrr..." he started to power up,
"What are you doing!?" Raguna yelled as lightning started to crackle around the Emperor,
"GRAAAAA!" Ethelberd roared, his muscles expanded, his veins increased in size, and his pupils turned blood red, "RAAAAAAAA!" he continued to power up.
"What?!" Raguna yelled, trying to stand his ground,
"Ha!" Ethelberd finished with a small dark shockwave, then looked at Raguna, "Hehehehehehehe..." he chuckled, "I now have the power to dominate you!"
"Ethelberd?" Raguna muttered, "What's that on your face!?" he asked, seeing a stranged symbol on the Emperor's forehead,
"The Source of all my power!" Ethelberd laughed, "Now! Fight me, Raguna!"
"No!" Raguna yelled, "I will not! Ethelberd, stop this! I will not fight someone I can beat!"
"You can beat!?" Ethelberd exploded in anger, "You can't beat me boy! Now FIGHT!"
"No!" Raguna responded,
"FIGHT ME!" Ethelberd roared,
"NO!" Raguna continued and crossed his arms, "Give up already!"
"Foolish Earthmate." Ethelberd grumbled, "Here Raguna.. Maybe this may change your mind." he said and flew upwards, then extended his left arm to the sky.
"What are you doing!?" Raguna yelled, seeing the Emperor was charging up a magic spell,
"This?" Ethelberd said and looked at his black and red glowing arm, "This is called the Extermination Barrage." he muttered, "Or you can call it by my personal name... Pest Control!" he yelled, and from that hand, dozens of little black and red blasts fired out...
"Gah!" Raguna said in shock, only to find out the blasts were not intended for him...
But for the spectators...
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"AH!" a man in the crowds yelled as one of the blasts pierced through the forcefield and struck him through the heart,
"AY!" a woman was hit in the heart as well,
"Dwah!" Volkanon yelled as two blasts struck his chest,
"Mommy!" a little girl yelled as her mom was struck in the head.
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"That monster!" Camus yelled as the blasts made their way to his side of the stands,
"Camus!" Iris called out and pointed to a mother and her son, the next targets of the blasts,
"Oh no!" Camus said and quickly dashed over, "Barrier!" he yelled and placed the shield, dissipating the threat.
"Ha!" Iris smacked a blast away before it hit an old woman,
"WAH!" Lynette screamed as one pierced her heart,
"Lynette!" Camus said in shock, "No!"
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"Ethelberd! YOU MONSTER!" Raguna yelled in fury as he saw the death and panic in the crowds, "STOP IT!"
"HAHAHAHAHA!" Ethelberd laughed cruelly and continued his assault,
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"What is going on!?" the Announcer said, his area of the stands completely ignored by the killer blasts,
"I-I-I-I don't know!" the Curator stammered.
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"Now..." Ethelberd chuckled as he stopped the attack and lowered his arm, "Raguna? Has your mind changed... Or do you need more bodies to pile up on your conscience?"
"Y-Y-YOU FIEND!" Raguna exploded in rage, "FINE! I WILL FIGHT YOU!"
"Oh... Rats..." Ethelberd grumbled, "Here I was wanting to kill another one-third of the spectators... Oh well... My Wish is Granted! Come on!" he extended his hands.
"Let's go!" Raguna yelled, "Blitz Faust times Five!" he charged with the power boost and did a powerful punch to the Emperor's face,
However... The tyrant was unfazed.
"Hahahaha!" Ethelberd laughed, "Was that an attack!? Try AGAIN!" he blasted the Earthmate with a black wave,
"WOAH!" Raguna yelled in pain as he was sent back, "RAH! Blitz Faust times Six!" he yelled and did a devestating missile kick, "Earth Power!" he blasted the fiend with a huge energy wave, which made a massive explosion when it struck the ground.
"Bwahahahahahaha!" Ethelberd laughed and stepped out of the smoke, unaffected at all,
"WHAT?!" Raguna said in pure shock,
"What do you think of my new power?" Ethelberd laughed, "You will be the first one to see it in action! RAH!" he ran and smashed a shadow ball on Raguna's chest.
"DWAH!" Raguna yelled in pain as he was sent crashing into the wall,
"HAHAHAHAHA! DEADLY FINGER BEAM!" Ethelberd laughed and shot a fury of little black beams from his two index fingers, each one piling on and making a larger explosion.
"HYAH!" Raguna, in BF x7, appeared from the smoke and charged,
"HA!" Ethelberd placed on his barrier,
"WAH!" Raguna careened off course,
"TAKE THIS!" Ethelberd yelled and kicked the Earthmate,
"ACK!" Raguna screamed in pain and crashed into another wall.
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"Raguna is getting massacred!" Camus groaned, "Even in Blitz Faust times Seven!"
"Come on Camus!" Iris called out as she carried an injured child, "Help me!"
"Fine... But I'll miss the fight!" Camus muttered as he walked away, holding an elderly man.
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"Agonize!" Ethelberd karate chopped Raguna's spine,
"AH!"
"Writhe in your filth!" the Emperor launched a devestating dark ball were Raguna lay,
The smoke cleared,
"Ha... Ha..." Raguna panted, "Blitz Faust Ti-"
"RAH!" Ethelberd elbowed Raguna in the stomach,
"Gah..." Raguna moaned,
"Deadly Bomber!" Ethelberd smashed two dark balls on Raguna's chest, sending him flying to another wall.
"Damn!" Raguna cursed as he fell to the ground, "I'm not... Doing anything..."
"This is the end of the line... Raguna." Ethelberd chuckled and flew over to him, "I completely outclass you even in your strongest Blitz Faust..."
"You're holding back.." Raguna groaned as he sat up,
"I want you to feel my pain.. Raguna.." Ethelberd grumbled, "The pain I felt when I was completely humiliated by a lower class mongrel such as yourself! The pain when my plans of world conquest and godhood were shredded and thrown out the window! The pain I felt all these years in hell!" he lifted the Earthmate through magical telekinesis.
"What are you gonna do now?" Raguna said as he floated midair,
"I will make you die the slowest and most painful way..." Ethelberd said and clenched his hand, sorta like how Darth Vader uses the Force,
"GAH!" Raguna felt his neck being tightened,
"I will squeeze the life out of you, Earthmate!" Ethelberd laughed, "I will make you grovel and beg!" he smashed Raguna on the ground.
"GRAH!" Raguna yelled in pain,
"BEG! EARTHMATE! BEG FOR MERCY!" Ethelberd laughed in insanity, then continued smashing him.
I didn't want to use this... Raguna thought, But it seems I have no choice...
"What?" Ethelberd said and let the Earthmate loose, "Are you done already..."
"No..." Raguna responded in a rasp voice and weakly stood up, "I can defeat you."
"No you can't!" Ethelberd scoffed, "Your Blitz Faust doesn't work on me, boy!"
"Who says Blitz Faust was my only power up?" Raguna chuckled, gave a sly grin, and then started to power up.
"What?!" Ethelberd yelled in shock,
"RAHHHHHH!" a white aura appeared out of Raguna, then little bolts of electricity shot out of him,
"What is this?!"
"HAH!" Raguna stopped, the stared hard at Ethelberd, "Heh..." he chuckled, "Call me Ultimate Raguna..."
"How did you!?" Ethelberd said, "Whatever! You are still nothing compared to me!"
"How did I get this?" Raguna laughed, "Thank Sister Stella for that.."
"Who?" Ethelberd asked in confusion,
"Her earnest prayer helped me tap my hidden potential..." Raguna mumbled, "Making my power skyrocket even farther than what Blitz Faust can achieve. Now... My question for you... Where'd you get yours?"
"None of your business!" Ethelberd yelled and blasted a black sphere at his opponent,
"HAH!" Raguna slapped it away,
"What?!" Ethelberd said in shock,
"Let's do this!" Raguna yelled and kicked the Emperor in face, dealing incredible damage! Raguna's first costly blow on his opponent.
"There's no way!" Ethelberd wiped the blood off his lip, "How!? DIE!" he continued blasting his black magic,
"Hyah!" Raguna swatted the spheres aways,
"Gah!" Ethelberd said, "Darkness Revenge!" he fired the large beam of black magic,
"GRR!" Raguna yelled and caught the beam, then held it back.
"RAH!" Ethelberd put more "oomph" into it, however, he could not push Raguna back,
"HYAH!" Raguna kicked the beam up, making it explode midair.
"TAH!" Ethelberd warped behind him and released another Revenge beam.
"ARGH!" Raguna yelled as he was blasted away.
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"I will kill you! Earthmate!" Ethelberd blocked Raguna's punch,
"No way in hell!" Raguna blocked Ethelberd's retaliation, "Water Laser!" he shot out the jet,
"DWAH!" Ethelberd took the hit and fell back, "Damn!"
"HYAH!" Raguna punched the Emperor in the face, sending him crashing into the wall.
"I can't... Lose!" Ethelberd groaned as he stood up,
"You will, lose!" Raguna yelled, "Out of tricks, magician!?"
"No!" Ethelberd roared,
I have to stall him... The Emperor thought,
"You said you wanted to know my power, right?!" Ethelberd called out,
"Yes." Raguna responded,
"This was a gift!" Ethelberd yelled, "I sold my soul to the god of the Underworld for this power! I swore to him that I would defeat you if he lent me it!"
"What?!" Raguna yelled in shock, "Why would you do that, Ethelberd!? You could've gotten a second chance to go to heaven!"
"Hmph." Ethelberd grunted, "Who needs that if you have what you want!?"
"You Fool!" Raguna growled, "Why sell your soul to the devil for power!?"
"I AM NOT A FOOL!" Ethelberd roared, "YOU ARE!" he put out all the power he was charging up in the previous conversation, "VENGANCE CANNON!" he yelled and shot out a huge black beam from his hands.
"No!" Raguna yelled as he tried to hold the massive attack back, "I can't have this attack hit the wall! It will take those bleachers in the explosion!"
"DIE!" Ethelberd put more power,
"RAH!" Raguna used his might to careen the beam upwards to avoid the spectators, but taking him with it.
KERABOOOMMMM!
The attacks explosion could be seen in the whole city!
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"Hehehehehe..." Ethelberd chuckled as Raguna's tattered body crashed down into the sands.
"Damn..." Raguna groaned and stood up,
"You have no more fight, boy!" Ethelberd panted as he slowly flew over,
"I have more fight that you can imagine.." Raguna grumbled, "Ethelberd... You fiend... You deserve what is coming to you!" he yelled,
"Oh.. I'm so scared." Ethelberd scoffed,
"I will make you die in the most humiliating way YOU can ever imagine!" Raguna yelled and held his right fist high, "I will take you out by the very ones whom you despise!"
Raguna's fist glew a soft white,
"You don't have the energy!" Ethelberd scoffed, "You can't kill me!"
"You are right..." Raguna panted, then lowered his fist, "Then you are wrong." he chuckled and held both his hands up high, "Runeys! Oh great spirits of the land! Please lend me some energy!"
A strong glowing spiral circled around Raguna's body and the little Runeys spun around him,
"WHAT?!" Ethelberd said in shock.
"A little girl named Candy taught me this!" Raguna said as he lowered his arms, "I feel better!"
"That's impossible!" Ethelberd stammered,
"Now!" Raguna raised his right fist up again, "Earthmates! Rise up and take justice on your enemy!" he yelled and his fist started to glow blue, "Earthmates, hear my call! Send the strongest of your all to make this tyrant rise and fall!"
The ghostly images of Kyle, Aden, Sonja, Lest, and Frey appeared next to Raguna, and they all placed their hands on his fist,
"SPIRIT OF THE EARTHMATES!" Raguna yelled and rocketed towards Ethelberd, punching a hole straight through his stomach with his fist.
"GAH!" Ethelberd yelled and collapsed on his knees,
"Ha... Ha..." Raguna panted,
"What!? What have you done?!" Ethelberd roared, "I will Kill YOU!" he charged up a Darkness Beam, "I WILL MAKE YO- Huh!?" Ethelberd yelled as his power died down, "What is going on!?"
"You swore that you would be able to beat me with that power." Raguna said, "I guess the god of the underworld wasn't too happy that you didn't keep your promise."
"WHAT!?" Ethelberd screamed as a fiery portal appeared behind him, and a Grim Reaper-esque figure shot out a harpoon and struck him. "WAIT!" Ethelberd yelled as he was being dragged into the portal, "DON'T! RAGGGUNNNNNNAAAAAA!" he roared in rage, and he was grabbed by the figure and thrown deeper inside.
The portal closed in a great flash.
"I guess Ethelberd..." Raguna put on some shades, "Made a hot exit."
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"The Next Match is... Camus and Iris." the Curator mumbled, "But tomorrow... We have had a rough day..."
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Synopsis-
"Majin" Ethelberd Owns all BF Ragunas.
"Ultimate" Raguna owns Ethelberd... However, he was already tired when he used it in this match, so it kinda evened it out.
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Moves of the Match:
Sister Stella's Prayer Unlock-
Inventor: Sister Stella
Users: Raguna
Spell Type: Power Up
Spell Element: None
While in Trampoli, Raguna learned that the town's leader, Sister Stella, could make a prayer that would unlock his hidden power. So after a rigorous ceremony which included lots of holy water and preemptive prayer, Stella was ready to pray for our hero. Spending 20 hours non-stop praying, the old nun Unlocked Raguna's hidden power, making his power increase twelvefold!
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Spirit of the Earthmates-
Inventor: The Earthmates
Users: Any PURE Earthmate. (Raguna, Kyle, Lest, Frey, Aden, Sonja)
Spell Type: Offensive
Spell Element: Spirit Magic
This move summons the spirits of very powerful earthmates to help deliver a very powerful punch. It can be used by any PURE Earthmate- no hybrids with part Earthmate descent! Sorry, Leona, Lucia, Aaron, Aria, and everyone else's children (with the exception of Aden and Sonja's child- Two pure Earthmates make one pure one!)
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Soul Pact-
Inventor: Unknown
Users: Anyone with a soul.
Spell Type: Power Up
Spell Element: Dark Magic
That bastard Ethelberd doesn't know when to stop, does he? His yearning to defeat Raguna made him use the drastic choice of selling his soul to the god of the Underworld for a huge boost in power. Unknown if it works with other gods, though...
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