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(!) "In the Midst of Battle with the first of the Invading Broken Crowns inside of Oregon, Jasmine's Army is hanging in there as good and evil fight it out. Back in the Mirror World, Logan has second thoughts about seeking revenge on Lulu."
Chapter 29: Blood and Sweat
Thursday
26 September, 2013 4:30 [Evening]
House of The New Dawn, Logan Bedroom
Four walls several feet apart from one another, adorned with American flags that hung down from the walls and large square frames with paintings of American Presidents and Iconic American Landscapes. Also in his bedroom were statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John. Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Logan sat on his bed, legs crossed and thumb nails digging underneath the nails of his other fingers. He looked around and thought about Lulu, thought about the short time they had together before she was captured. Logan fell back against his bed, head resting against his pillow. There was something missing.
"Lulu…I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry for Trying to Kill You. Just please, give us a second chance. That's it, that's all."
"Logan, Both you and I Know That Your Love is to far Gone to Ever come Back." Said the Voice of the Spirit of The First U.S President .
George Washington wore the exact same formal black suit of his time when he was president, instead of his usual general attire. He walked around over to Logan's right side, draping him with Bed covers modeled after the American Flag.
"You're Time Will Come, My Son. Do not mope, do not Despair. Fill your heart with hope, Be confident in yourself before being confident in the uncertain sparks of love."
Logan pushed his right arm under his pillow so he could raise it a bit, Logan closed his eyes, watching G.W Waving his left hand while having a smile on his face. "America….Erica will be My…"
Releasing some Zzz's, The Spirit of G.W Disappeared, the lights in Logan's bedroom turning off one by one.
Malheur National Forest, East Oregon
5:00 [Evening]
Beck Oliver and Jade West vs. Moose
"Hey Beck, You wanna know what."
"What Jade, Tell me."
Jade blushed and looked down at her swinging feet. Beck and Jade were sitting atop of a large building, overlooking a large city and the setting sun in the horizon. Beck placed his hand on her thigh, Jade's hand rested on it and gripped it tightly.
"It feels like we've known each other for a long time, hasn't it."
"Yeah, its like, you and me were meant to be. Hey, where do you want to go after this? We can go to an arcade or-"
"…Beck."
"Uh, did you say something Jade? Just now?"
Jade shook her head, all innocent like, with that adoring and heartwarming smile following short after nodding.
"Oh, I must have just been hearing things. Like I way saying, we can go to an Arcade, get some Smoothies, and then we can walk down by the beach."
"Beck!"
Beck looked around to see who it was that was calling his name, it sounded so much like Jade. But she was sitting next to him, not saying anything and just smiling at him and swinging her legs back and forth.
"Um, Jade come on let's go, I think there's an Echo up here."
"BECK! ARE YOU OK! CAN YOU HEAR ME!"
This wasn't an Echo! This was really happening. Someone was calling out to him, but who.
"Jade…what's Going On! Can't you hear that?"
"Beck, can I tell you something before you Leave?"
"I'm not going anywhere Jade, Tell me what you want to tell me."
"It took me a while to get my thoughts together, I really had to let my heart speak with my mind and….well, I Love You Beck Oliver. I Really Do."
Beck's eyes filled with tears, he stuttered and choked up trying respond properly to Jade. He was so happy, so Touched beyond anything words alone could not describe.
"Jade I…I really Love-"
A Large hand that came down from the sky, grabbed Beck and pulled him into the sky.
"Stop! Let me Go! I'm happy here! I'm Finally Happpyyyy!" Beck screamed as he shot towards the sky.
[End of Illusion World]
Mobile Howitzers which Jade had conjured up using a War Art earlier, had been bombarding the Steel dome Beck was in with artillery shells. Jade had managed to break through it using her great strength and pulled Beck out of it.
Beck looked completely detached from the world, he was basically a borderline catatonic. Jade shook him by his shoulders, trying to get him out of this funk that he was in.
"Beck! Come one Wake Up!"
Jade looked over her shoulder and saw that Moose was finishing killing the last of her Insect warriors. She shook him even more, this time more frantically and with more strength.
"God damnit Beck!"
"Here I Come Girly!" Moose warned.
Jade turned her attention to Moose who came in fast, swinging his Sword down at Jade, she changed her hands into Solid Gold and grabbed the insect blood stained Katana. Moose's Silver Body Suit of Armor was stained with greenish and whiteish blood. Their were also deep cuts on his armor along with large holes, definitely from those large mandibles and stinging insects.
The blade of the Katana shook, Jade's legs began to shake. She began to crouch down, The more she did the more Moose leaned down on her with his sword still firmly in the grips of her golden hands.
"Beck! Please Get up…I Need You!" Jade cried out to him, looking over her shoulder.
Beck looked up at the sky, then down at his hands and turned to see Jade. The strength in her arms had waned and gave up, With her arms momentarily down, Moose slashed Sideways, spraying Jade's blood on Beck's face.
"Aaahhh! Beck Please!" She continued to Cry Out.
"Forget it! What's he's seen inside of my Technique has him thinking about something really serious. But since he's a guy like me, I assume he saw the perfect life together with you. But you're heart is not his, and you could care less about him I'm assuming. It's a shame really…Well, Just Die Already!"
Before he could slash away a second time, Beck had snapped out of his funk and was a glowing blue blur in Jade's eyes. Beck whole body was enveloped in a brilliant sparkling Blue flaming aura. His hand, the one that stopped Mooses Katana was shrouded by a large Spiritual Gauntlet that mirrored the precious stone Sapphire. He floated up into the sky, as a 1000 foot Spiritual Warrior began to form around him.
This Powerful Spiritual warrior was the symbol and pinnacle of Beck's Coveted Sapphire Form. A form so powerful, it was enough to rival Andre's Honored Knighthood Form. The fabric the Gargantuan Spiritual warrior wore was as black as the night sky, over that he wore Interlocking pieces of Armor that covered most of it's body. And finally underneath all of that, it wore a suit made entirely out of Sapphire.
A Star fell from the sky, Beck's spiritual warrior caught it in it's hand. Forming in the hand of this giant was a Great sword made out of Sapphire. A Spiritual Great shield formed on the spirit's opposite forearm. If Beck's Warrior was not menacing enough, several thousand hands appeared behind it's back wielding different weapons, a few were lightning bolts, spears of fire and orbs of cosmic energy.
Jade's cut had slowly healed itself, but she didn't notice herself healing. Watching Beck disappear inside of this Warrior, and just the magnificent sight of this Being sent fear into her heart. Perhaps it was the divine presence inside of her, but when she listened in closely, she could hear the whole earth singing.
"Whoa…Wait a second…I was just…" Moose looked like he was going to flee, but in a last ditch effort he had summoned his own battle avatar. Moose jumped into a Steel giant, but it was only at most 200 feet tall; absolutely nowhere near The size or dominance Beck's second spiritual body was at.
"It's over for you Moose. Nothing you do or pull out of your own bag of Arts will save you. You pushed me into a form only worthy rivals and threats deserve to see me in, but at least I entered it to protect someone who really could have been mine in a different life, a different word…a different story."
The hands on the back of Beck's spiritual warrior, extended and reached over and attacked Moose's small steel armored giant. Hammers, Axes and Spears made out of lightning bombarded him with devastating attacks and destroyed Moose's giant with little to no effort. One hand pulled Moose out of his protective battle avatar and raised him up to it's face. Like a baseball in someone's hand, Beck tossed Moose into the air. And using the flat side of his great sword smacked Moose into space where his next stop was the Sun.
Beck who had become one with his spiritual warrior, breathed a sign of relief and descended back down to the ground. His warrior had begun to disappear. Beck slowly descended back down and rested on his knees where she slumped over and panted.
"Beck! Oh My God That was…that was-"
"Anti-Climactic, Bastard didn't even put up a good fight. That makes it the second time I entered that form in my whole life. Jade… I know I can't compare to Andre. I know I probably can't instill those butterflies he makes you get. What I saw in that world Moose trapped me in, is to sad and heartbreaking to ever had been real. And the thing was, I knew it was false but loved it also. Consider this mission done Jade. I'm going to go Help Shawn, you are free to go back to Andre now."
Beck raised himself back up but hung his head low both in sadness and in defeat, his beautiful brown hair hung and covered much of his face. Jade bit her lower lip and looked like she could shed some tears. She reached over to cup his face in her hands, but he only turned away and quietly told her
"Just go Jade…And, Great Job today.."
Jade pulled her hands away, turned around and held back her tears as best she could, she went as far as to bite her lower lip to stifle small whimpers from escaping. She never expected it to hurt this bad, she never meant for him to fall so hard for her. She placed her left forearm on her face and started to cry and whimper.
Beck sunk into the earth and went over to assist Shawn Becker. Jade teleported away, her tears, one of them at least fell and dropped on the ground.
Over by the location that Andre, Tori and Cat were in. Andre had sweat beads fall down from his temple down to his cheeks and down to his chin. He looked scared, intimidated and excited all at the same time. Never has he felt such an overwhelming power come from someone else other than him or Jasmine.
"Now I know, before all of this is over. I'm going to challenge him for Jade. Sob was hiding his true power all this time. Damn, what a presence."
Shawn Becker vs. Jeffrey Virgo
Electricity snapped and sparked wildly from tears in Shawn's Battle suit, Much of it his suit had been badly damaged and most of the thick armored had been compromised from the long arduous battle Shawn was having with Jeffrey. Jeffrey Paper sword which at first looked harmless, was anything but that.
If Shawn was not careful enough, and didn't avoid a powerful slash or jab, he could have lost an arm or could have been punctured and died. Luckily most of Jeffrey's hits only managed to cut off a few parts of his Bulky Armor.
"You know that sensation when you get a paper cut, Paper alone is to soft to cut, but the edges can be as a sharp as a razor. now imagine that magnified to levels high enough where it can cut through armor, this is my Sword, this is my power."
"You done talking? How about letting our Swords do the talking and the fighting. Dickhead."
"Mind your language young man."
"Fuck you, You're not my Father. Let's see how you like this one…Machine Art! Mechanical Hydra Technique! And Machine Art, Technological Marvel! Aerial Division #20!"
Arising out of the ground Was A Gigantic Robotic Turtle with Ten serpentine heads, all which had red nodules lining the sides of their heads. Shawn also pointed at the sky, coming down were 20 Speedy, futuristic Fighter spacecrafts armed heavily with guns, defended by force fields and revolved by protective orbs of energy.
"Kill Him!" Shawn shouted. The mechanical Hydra dashed over to Jeffrey, The twenty spacecrafts flew over to him even faster. Jeffrey flipped backwards while at the same time swinging his sword, cutting the serpent heads trying to bite him and coil around him. Jeffrey had raised his great shield to block some of the kinetic blasts and energy projected. But rockets, serpentine like rays of disintegrating energy, nets of electricity, Life seeking photon energy arrows and many more types of weapons firing at Jeffrey was too much for him to block or evade.
Jeffrey, while continuing to flipping backwards, slipped. He got back up and rested on one knee and surrounded himself with an revolving net of Large Shuriken, knives, Daggers and spears made out of Sharpened paper.
"You're surrounded Jeffrey! Now WHAT!"
Jeffrey shot his spears and shuriken at two of the spacecrafts hovering and surrounding him. Their speedy maneuverability capabilities, prevented some of the paper weapons from destroying them. But two of the fighter spacecrafts were hit, they erupted in fire and fell down from the skies, the first time more than one of them were shot down. The mechanical hydra moved in closer, the ten heads which were overly large for this fight, split themselves into several thousands snake heads which shot at Jeffrey.
Jeffrey sliced and bashed the robotic snake heads away with his Great sword and Great Shield.
"What's the point in slinging two hundred, or three hundred heads, four hundred and six hundred will replace them. You're finished Jeffrey!"
Jeffrey tried to teleport using his paper shuffle technique, but the snake heads wrapped around his body and began to sap all of his energy. Only his head was left exposed in this ball of coiled heads he was in. The hovering spacecrafts continued to hover watching and waiting, Shawn walked over to Jeffrey who looked really uncomfortable. Shawn stepped out of his Destroyed robotic suit of armor with robotic gauntlets on.
Beck had finally arrived, but arrived late to the party. He saw Shawn approaching Jeffrey who gritted his teeth and shook his head wildly. He took a look up at the skies and saw 18 of Shawn's Futuristic fighter spacecrafts.
"Whoa…two of them got destroyed. Even I don't think I could have gotten more than two of those birds out of the sky. This Broken crown must have really pushed him far for Shawn to call on those guys."
Beck hung back and raised a seat made out of earth and watched the conclusion of this battle.
"You could have joined us Jeffrey, you've got skills and talent. But what weight do my words hold right? After all you've been treating me like a child ever since we started this battle. Acting like you knew so much more. The maybe you've seen THIS"
Shawn swung his fist and punched Jeffrey across his face, left and right Jeffrey's slowly became more bloody and bruised. Beck looked and became more disturbed by the brutality Shawn showed to his enemy.
"Shawn!"
"Shut it Beck!" Shawn snapped back at his fellow house leader.
When there wasn't much of Jeffrey's face, Shawn turned and twisted Jeffrey's head. But it did not end there, Shawn ripped his enemy's head off and fed it to one of his robotic Snake heads.
After dismissing his fighter spacecrafts and his Mechanical Hydra, and properly destroying Jeffrey's body Shawn approached Beck and requested something from his friend.
"Don't ever tell me what to do when I'm fighting an enemy Beck. Especially when it's Me against him or her. Focus on your own battles."
Shawn summoned forth his teleporter and stepped inside of it, the sliding door closed and It and Shawn vanished. Beck inhaled and exhaled, he brushed his hands in his hair and sunk into the earth.
Umatilla Wildlife Refuge, Columbia River
5:55 [afternoon]
True Jenna and Griffin vs. Jason Sikowitz
Fully healed and standing up on her own two feet, True dusted herself off, turned to Griffin and hugged him.
"I'm glad I was paired up with you Griffin. Even though you're still such a chauvinistic Bastard, I wouldn't mind being trapped inside an elevator with you."
True wrapped her arms around Griffin's neck, rested her head against the space between his neck and shoulder. Griffin, who was a bit dirty from their battle with Jason, smiled and hugged True back. He squeezed her tightly against him, True blushed and so did Griffin.
"Hey true…I'm going to grab your butt. Alright." he said close to her ear.
"Oh Griffin, if you do that…I'll kill you." she replied with an innocent tone which hid a serious threat.
"Aw, but if you did that, then you would alone. Besides you wouldn't do that, Because I love you True."
True Gasped, her eyes grew wide eyed. But in her moment of Delight, Griffin couldn't help himself and gave True's buttocks several squeezes. True happy expression gave way to an annoyed scowl.
"Griffin you…"
"NICE TRY BITCH! YOU ALMOST HAD ME!"
True turned around and looked on with Griffin as Jason floated in the sky, He was badly burned on his left side. His left arm was missing and so was his right leg. His shirt and jacket were turned to ash in the supernova explosion. But his black pants were still intact, with some holes in them. To replace his missing arm and leg, he had fashioned an arm and leg made out of rock borrowed from meteors in space. Jason descended back down to the ground. He got in a ready fighting pose and egged both of them to resume their battle with him.
"How the hell did you survive that explosion Jason! Nothing could have survived That Explosion!"
"I though I was a goner also Griffin, but my Telekinesis is strong enough that I was able to create a force field to keep the explosion from damaging me long enough to locate This planet, and teleport back over here. Of course, when I teleported away, my force field vanished and I had to endure the heat and shockwave from the explosion. And that's how I survied. Oh! I also Synthesized an arm and leg with rock I carved from a meteorite in space. Pretty sweet huh…Hahhaha! HAHAHAHAHA! You Can't Kill Me!"
"Griffin, I don't think I can pull off that same move again. My energy is depleted, you're going to have to fight for both of us."
Griffin smirked. He raised his chin, puffed out his chest and surrounded himself with a vortex of powerful rotating Air. "Secret Air Art #2…I Am The Wind!" Griffin's body became wispy and see through. He walked over to Jason and disappeared into the wind.
"No matter where you turn [punches Jason in the face] no matter you look, [punches him in his stomach] and no matter where you breathe [Strikes Jason's back with his knee] I am already there!"
On his sides, on the back of his neck, on his legs and right in front of his face, Jason Sikowitz was getting attacked from everywhere. Each punch was powerful enough to leave the impressions of Griffin's fists, elbow strikes and shin strikes. Jason has no idea where exactly Griffin was at, so for the meantime he created a Force field that would hopefully keep Griffin away from him.
"Nope. Sorry but that's Not going to protect you Jason. Even inside of this force field I can still strike you."
Jason shield his body with a second force field several inches away from his whole body.
"There you can't get me now Asshole! What are you going to do now…ack…ack…Aarrgghh!"
"You only pushed me into your lungs Dipshit! Have a nice trip to Hell Bastard!"
Jason's chest began to extend outward and fall back in, extend and fall until, until.
His chest bursted open from the inside out. His ribs extend outwards, blood sprayed all over his force field. Blood and piles of Muscle and tissue collected on the bottom of his force field. The light in Jason's eyes disappeared, as did his force field. Jason's lifeless body fell from the sky and crashed into the ground below. This mission was finally done.
"You did it Griffin! You really did it!…But Where are you exactly?"
A small gust of wind blew and rotated around True, in the wind she heard Griffin speaking to her.
"I might be like this for a few hours Babe. My mind and spirit have been displaced, it's the reason I never used this Art in the first place. It's also the reason why it's a secret art also. Don't worry about me True, this will be easy for me. Go back home, and Ill be there."
"Are you sure? Maybe I should get And-"
"No! I'll be fine True. I used this technique once to travel the world when I was 15 years old. My mother and father reported me as missing, and then I shocked them by one day returning back to my bedroom."
"Well…ok Griffin. Just don't keep me waiting too long."
"See you later True." and just lije the that, the rotating gust of air blowing around True dissipated. True vanished in a form of bubbles.
Outskirts of Ontario, Oregon
6:30 [Evening]
Tori Vega, Cat Valentine vs. Huey Joy
Trying to catch his breath while resting on one knee, Huey Joy looked and stared at both Tori and Cat who had tears in their clothing and were bleeding from cuts they sustained in this fight with him. Huey had perhaps sustained the most cuts and tears to his clothing out of all three of them. Blood covered the whole right side of his face, and was smeared on his arms and cut shirt and pants.
He looked past the girls and saw Andre looking to the side, arms crossed over his chest. He looked preoccupied with something that was on his mind.
"God damn bastard doesn't even bother to help his little girlfriends. What's the point in fighting, if they win I'm dead. And if I come close to winning, I'll be die by his hands. I'm trapped.
"Hey! we're over here dummy!" Tori reminded Huey. "Timber Art! Forest Children!" Tori crouched and place both her hands on the damaged ground which was littered with shards of broken glass. 25 trees rose out from under the ground, they surrounded the trio, leaving Andre out of their view, not that he couldn't still see them of course. These trees leaves glowed a powerful green glow, the leaves blew out of their branches and formed small child like soldiers wielding swords made out of wood. They looked more like kendo swords.
"After Huey!" Tori commanded her nature allies. The lead children, who numbered 30 dashed over to Huey who formed a sharpened glass sword and clashed against the wooden swords of these leaf children. Block, swing, and flipping backwards was the plan. Cut these kids in half, block mortal slashes and jump back when they looked like they were going to mob him.
"Over here!" Signaled Cat who was coming in from his left. She flew over to him, He waited for her until the right time. But there was no time to waste, the forest children started to gang up on him. They pierced their wooden swords into him. Cat came in, but stopped in the nick of time when Huey made large, thing glass spines pop out of his body. He looked like a human sea urchin.
As the glass spines retracted back into his body, Tori was already high up in the air, with a wooden bow in hand and an arrow with a glowing green arrowhead on it. Huey took notice of her almost instantly, but before he could move out of the way, wooden hands punched out of the ground and held on to his legs.
Cat also helped by restraing his arms and legs with her telekinetic arms. "Do it Tori!" Cat hollered.
"No…NOOO!" Huey cried out. Tori released her arrow and watched it shoot towards him, there was absolutely nowhere to go, the only thing he could do was Embrace the sweet escape which was known as Death. The arrow punctured Huey, effectively turning him into a wooden dummy.
Tori fell back on the ground and dismissed her wooden hands, The trees she had summoned with her earlier Timber art had also vanished. Andre focused back on their girls fight and saw that the fight was already won.
"You two were amazing, I guess this means there's no need for this to be around anymore."
Andre was referring to Huey's power over sand, he grabbed the glowing glass heart and made it vanish in his hands.
"So what do we do with Huey now?" Wondered Tori.
"I know…" Cat carved huey up into several hundred blocks of wood, levitated the pieces high up into the air and turned them into dust using her telekinesis.
"There, we won't be hearing from him anymore." Cat told them, Andre looked up at the sky and still thought about the power he felt from Beck earlier.
"Hey Andre, does this means we're finished?"
"Yeah Tori, I'll send you two back with Cat here. I'm going to go check up on how the others are doing. And you might need a change of clothing too, blood on you two does not suit you, although it does make you two look so Valkyrian."
Cat giggled and hugged Andre, "Hey!" Tori protested. Andre kissed Cat without hesitation, their tongues twisting in a lust filled passion.
"Off you go Miss Valentine." Andre said, teleporting Cat back to the Mirror world.
"Red heads, am I right Darling." Tori snickered, Andre pulled her in closer to him and kissed her. He placed kisses down her neck, throat and all the way up to her right temple. Tori blushed and panted in a breathy manner, Andre kissed her all the way down to her chest for added love.
"And off you go also, Darling." Andre muttered, just like Cat, Tori was gone in a jiff.
Now Andre focused on people who might or might not have needed help, he closed his eyes and focused hard. There was at least one person who needed help, "Griffin. I'm here for you buddy."
Malheur Lake, Oregon
7:00 [Night]
Mara Jaffray vs. Marybeth Lion
The body of Marybeth had not moved in well over 2 hours, Mara considered her mission a success-that is until she heard Marybeth getting back up on her feet. Mara turned and faced Marybeth, She was coming out of her Were-lion transformation. She had returned back to being human, but her shirt and jeans that she was wearing were all ripped, which left her only in her underwear and bra.
"It's going to hurt a little to kill such a talented Broken Crown." Mara said, with some disappointment.
"Magic Art, Sword of Emotion." Mara got in fighting stance and held the grip of a sword whose blade mirrored a knight's sword, except it glowed with different colors, red, green, blue, yellow etc.
"Beast…Art, Tarantula Guard." Appearing behind on Marybeth's back, was a giant tarantula who spread it's arms out, giving the impression of Marybeth having more arms.
"And one more thing, Beast Art, Bear and Lion Claws!" Marybeth's right hand hanged into that of a Bear's paw, and her left hand into that of a Lion's paw. Each with dangerous weapons.
"Let's Go!" Mara initiated.
Both girls rushed towards each other, Mara swung her blade, clashing it against the apparent steel claws of Marybeth's bear and lion claws. Swinging, slashing vertically and horizontally, the meeting of their weapons created sparks after sparks. The tarantula on Marybeth's back started to use it's back legs to surround the battlefield with it's hairs. Mara, too focused on the fight inhaled some and started to choke.
She fell on her knees, barely still gripping the grip of her sword.
"Now You Die!" Just before Marybeth could deal the fatal blows, Mara's sword turned baby blue, if Marybeth was feeling angry and proud, then her state of mind had been changed to content and modest. Marybeth stopped midway in her swing to decapitate Mara, she had no idea why, but this moment of confusion was all Mara would need. She jabbed her sword trough Marybeth, puncturing her and her Tarantula guard.
The tarantula let out of a piercing screech, it reached over Marybeth's head and bit down on Mara's back. One of it's fangs getting stuck in her. Mara ignored the pain and pulled the sword upwards. Ending this gruesome fight.
Marybeth was dead, the tarantula had vanished and Mara was on her knees, trying to think of an art that would save her from early death. But the poison was already in her blood stream, the tarantula's fang might have been gone from her back, but it's poison was left behind.
Mara began to lose her vision, she swayed to her right and left and fell on her side.
"You have been my most loyal servant, Mara Jaffray. As much as I would love for you to join my ranks, It is no your time yet to join me in this underworld kingdom." echoed a very manly and deep voice from the darkness Mara was in.
Her heartbeat had restarted, her muscles had regained new strength and all of her other major organ systems had found new life. Mara's eyes opened, as did her mouth.
"I'm…alive, I'm Alive. My God…that's right, it was Anubis. It's always been Anubis. Thank you, My God."
Carlos Garcia, Lulu vs. Russ
Riding on the back of Carlos Garcia while he was in Hellhound Form, Lulu faced away from the front and instead kept erecting walls of Fire and lava, to keep Russ's waves of blood and living flesh away from them.
Russ was running out of options, earlier in their fight he had summoned a gigantic Zombie which was un-killable. Carlos and Lulu did not want to risk killing Russ and be left with an giant undead rampaging all over the United States.
[Flashback]
Carlos and Lulu had gotten faraway enough for Carlos to start digging into the ground, he was quick and pretty much mirrored a happy go lucky dog about to bury his bone. He dug quick enough to jump into a hole that quickly filled up with soil.
Carlos and Lulu had descended down into a The Lower plane of Creation which was as vast as the Universe, but which did not begin to cover even half of the worlds one was brave enough to enter. in the lower realm of creation, Lulu saw a titanic sized Pillar starting from the top of the lower real that went down into eternity separated into sliced areas. Each of these areas was as vasts as a whole world, each ruled by a lord of lady, or even by a governing body of demons, deities or absolutely no one. There was the fabled Tartaros, The Aztec Mictlan, The Finnish Tunoela, The Chinese Diyu and countless others to name.
"Which underworld should we go to Carlos?"
"I don't if it's because I'm Mexican, But I think we won't find a shortage of Criminals in the Aztec Underworld of Mictlan."
Carlos flew over to that part in the Pillar which was fairly low, Lulu looked upwards three worlds in the northern part of the Pillar and saw The Christian Hell. The feared of Lake of Fire was very real. Carlos and Lulu entered the Aztec Underworld and landed down on a Grassy hill, it was raining with a never ending thunderstorm.
Carlos and Lulu watched a line of people from the past and surprisingly from the present, walking in a long line and avoiding deadly jaguars, lighting strikes and mountains that tried to crush them white people, black people and indeed a lot of people were here. It seemed the underworld, unlike the human world had no such thing as discrimination.
Carlos looked around and picked out someone from the long human line, an eastern eurpean male who was being attacked by jaguars. Carlos told lulu to get back on his back, he ran down the grassy hill and jumped over the line of people who tried to grab Carlos. The duo caught up to the jaguars mauling this human male spirit, Carlos blew these wild animals with a fire blast shot from his mouth and grabbed the human spirit and flew out of the Aztec underworld.
Back in the human world, and on the battlefield, Carlos ran towards Russ's zombie, leaped up into the air shot through the zombie. He appeared to just enter from one end, only to come out of the other end. But in fact, he had given this zombie the human soul. The zombie shrunk, Lulu prepared her Fire Sealing Art, Kiln of Green Fire.
Lulu shot a green ring of fire at the living person, sealed the human soul and the zombie technique forever. Russ could no longer use that tecnique ever again.
[Flashback End]
Carlos Stopped running, Lulu jumped off of his back and readied her final move.
"Sacred Fire Art! Solar Sentinels!" Lulu placed her hands on the ground, a beam of light appeare in the sky that shot four separate rays of light that became 4 15foot tall faceless giant humanoids who were on fire.
"Sentinels! Bring me His head!" Lulu commanded her servants. She took a knee and breathed. Carlos saw that she expended a lot of energy just pulling off that move. Carlos couldn't much in Hellhound form, but in human form he could do much more. He morphed back into a human and Engaged Russ in hand to hand combat.
Russ who had enhanced strength, a lower form of super strength could hold his own against him. But fighting and dodging these Fiery giants was going to be difficult. Carlos went in and started to punch Russ, Russ blocked many of these powerful punches, and countered many. Carlos cringed when Russ punched him in his stomach, Russ Winced when one of his leg spins was caugh, and Got one of his ribs broke when Carlos slammed his shin against them.
The Fieiry Solar Sentinels joined the fight, Russ was now avoiding more than countering. There was no way for him to counter, but he did have one way to save himself. His pupils dilated, he spoke, "Pain!"
Carlos stopped fighting and curled and writhed around on the ground in pain. It was one of Russ's secondary powers.
"Carlos!" Lulu cried out. Lulu frowned and coated her whole body in Lava, she concentrated all of the fire she could muster at the bottom of her feet to propell herself like a rocket. She flew and left clouds of smoke behind her. Russ tried to induce pain in her, but found he was unable to.
"My Blood has become like Lava! You have no power over me!" With her right hand shrouded in fire, she created a sharp spear. The solar sentinetls grabbed Russ by his arms, which began to melt from the heat.
"AAAGGHHHHH!" He Scremed.
Lulu went in quick, and Pierced her Spear of Fire through Russ's chest, turning him into a pile of ash that blew away into the night air.
"Dimissed…" Lulu spoke, sounding tired and releived. She walked over to Carlos whose chest heaved rapidly with heavy panting.
"Carlos, Are you Ok?"
"Yeah…it felt like every cell in my body was screaming in agony. Is he dead?" Lulu nodded her head like a Somnabulist and rested on the ground next to Carlos.
Carlos grabbed her arms and made her straddle him, Lulu looked tired, but also very happy.
"Mission Accomplished." He uttered. Lulu smiled and leaned down to kiss him, Carlos sat up and kissed her back.
Over in the distance, several miles away a Mexican American Girl stood next to a thirty nine year old Jewish American fella. They stood in frotn of a 10 foot tall Muscular Pale man wearing black pants, boots and a black leather butcher's apron telepathically communicating with his last two remaining Broken Crowns. He had tattoos around his arms and around his chest in a spiral manner. But the one discerning thing about him was a solid Black iron cube he wore as a head. Both These broken crowns eyes glowed with an intense red glow. Filled with hatred and vengeance.
Next Chapter: Long Overdue Call
(!) "Continued in Chapter 30."