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Continue reading the chapter, I'm still fighting my troubles away.
Chapter 9: Three Years Later
"Hiyah!" Chrome shouted as he sent a flying kick at a zombie soldier, whilst maintaining his momentum in running, "Six armies; Zombie, Skeleton, Creeper, Spider, and Enderman, all allied against an army of Vampires." Chrome quickly calculated as he continues running through the crowds of soldiers fighting, sending punches and kicks to the nearest and unlucky soldier in his path, "All this war... just because you disappeared." Sun Wukong stated, "Shut up! I'm hurrying over here!"
"You're not hurrying fast enough!" "Shut up you old geezer!" "Old geezer?! Show some respect to your master!" "I would have... If your damn training method's excuses were more respectable!" they continued bickering as Chrome unconsciously kept on running through the crowd. Due to Sun Wukong's training regime, where he managed to charm the ferocious beasts into attacking Chrome day and night and thus, he gained the six sense to attack anything hostile within reach.
Both of their bickering stopped when he heard a loud roar, he stopped in his tracks making his left foot slide through the grass, his appearance have vastly changed, the one most noticeable is the red flowing cape that only hid the left side of his torso. Speaking of which, his entire torso is all wrapped up and covered with bandages alongside his left and right arms, making him look like he's a mummy if he had his entire head wrapped up as well. Over the bandages around his wrists is a pair of red and gold wrist guards and underneath those bandages are muscles worth three years of non-stop rigorous training.
Below; he is wearing black cargo pants who's ends have been folded up slightly to two inches of skin above the ankles while he is barefooted if you don't consider the red and gold ankle guards as footwear; while attached to his waist is his weapons; on the right side of his waist is where the pouch containing a limitless amount of daggers named Pray while on his left is a sheathe that houses a very sharp and unbreakable sword named Guardian. Now the reason for him stopping is a sight of fifteen feet colossus of a beast, made entirely out of bones.
A colossal skeleton with a giant crossbow the length of it reaches from the tip of the monster's head to the very bottom of its' torso. Perched on its' right wrist is a smaller version of the crossbow the size of a human shooting bolts of a proper proportion for the tool firing said bolts, "Who is it fighting?!" Chrome exclaimed in his head as he noticed a figure in a vampiric coat jumping in the air like it was solid, dodging the colossal skeleton's strikes, "Calm down, Chrome. If you let your anger blind you, consider yourself dead."
Chrome at this point is gritting his teeth, his knuckles whitening from the strength of his grip, "W-why am I getting a bad feeling..." he didn't continue as he noticed that a bolt was shot towards him, "Dodge it!" Sun Wukong snapped him out of it as he spun to the left narrowly dodging the bolt, "Stop dodging like that! It almost gave me a heart attack!" Sun Wukong exclaimed inside Chrome's head, "Shut up, this is my style of martial arts so be gone!" "You don't have to say it like I'm some sort of a demon!"
Sun Wukong's remark fell on deaf ears as Chrome concentrated on the fight between the colossal skeleton against the figure with the vampiric coat, a minute later Chrome's eyes widen as he notice the colossal skeleton fell down almost femininely, "That's how sh- no, she can't become an angry monster... She's too sweet to become one..." he thought as he jumped towards them; the gap was 50 blocks only to be cut down into 20 blocks, letting him have eyes and ears towards the battle.
He doesn't want to be seen so he called forth a cloud to ride on, floating above the battle between the cloaked figure and the colossus. What he saw next is a giant ball of green energy gathering on the point of the cloaked figure's finger-tip, about the same size as the colossus' head, "I'm terribly afraid to say this but I need to go now, so fare well, dear Stella." Chrome heard the figure said which widened his eyes as he heard Stella's friends who were nearby the colossus; shouting her name weakly, blacking out in the progress, "T-that's her?!"
"Stella!" Chrome shouted coming out of the cloud he was on and headed straight to the cloaked figure which surprised everyone who witnessed this.
Three Years Ago
"Chrome!" both Stella and the vampire princess shouted to the spot where 'he' disappeared on, "Come on, let's go help his find his cure." Andria stated and went to comfort Stella who knelt down, her heart heavy. Cupa looked around and saw that the vampire were no longer with them in the room, "Yeah, the sooner we can find his cure, the sooner he'll be by your side." Cupa went ahead to comfort her as well, "H-h-he... w-was... one of m-m-my c-closest friend..."
Everyone who heard her said that all wore a frown on their faces as they continue watching Stella sob, "Then that's a bigger reason why we should find that cure!" the princess of the spiders; Chloe stated, "A-alright, for 'him'!" Stella wiped away her tears, eyes filled with determination, "That's the spirit!" Cupa exclaimed as they all started sending out soldiers from across the lands. Minutes become hours, hours become days, and days become months, and as far as they're concerned, they have no way to contact Chrome of their findings.
"The Princes and Princesses are all busy in their quarters." one of the skeleton humob maid stated as they were near their princess' room, "Yeah, we lost a powerful soldier, human even, willingly following our princess' orders." one of the maids sighed, "Rather handsome too." one of them added, "Shh! Last time one of us flirted with him, princess didn't waste her time in making our lives miserable." one of the maids scolded as Stella who is in her chamber, continues to examine the mark on her left arm, left behind by 'him'.
While she was researching on how to activate magical seals, she was determined to try and contact 'him' about all of their findings. A year has passed and she was in her chamber once more but this time her eyes widen as she saw the mark glow green once more, "He's here!" she thought as she rushed out of her chamber surprising the servants, "Did she found a way to find her personal knight?" one of the butler asked to no one in particular as Stella were no longer in that floor.
Once she was in the main hall she noticed the very familiar figure, "Stella?" she heard him say making her smile and let tears of joy flow out of her eyes; currently lunging towards him, "Chrome!" glomping him affectionately Stella tried her very best to prevent her from losing her grip of him, "P-please, Stella, this is very unladylike of you!" Chrome replied with desperation in his tone and facial expression. She was very happy that she tried to get to be with him for the past months.
The other royalties heard of his return and decided to throw him a party a day before the war began. The cause of the war were very shocking to every royalties, it was some sort of twisted figment of their imagination coming to life and is trying to kill them all. Before all of that even happened, they were all in a formal party enjoying laughs and their company until at the time of their meal were they all sat around a very large and long table, elegantly decorated with a white cloth and decorations fit for royalty.
Until the Zombie princess, Ender princess, Creeper princess, and the Skeleton princess started coughing wildly once they took a bite of one of their foods, "What's wrong, Stella?!" Thanatos, her father suddenly rushed towards her along with her mother, the same goes for Azekah the Ender King, Chale the Zombie King, and Abaddon the Creeper King. They then heard a sickeningly sweet giggle and appearing besides Chrome was none other than the same vampire from before.
"Good work, sweet heart." the vampire stated caressing his face, "Poisoning them with Chemical X." she stated making the Kings and Queens to widen their eyes, "When thrown to a regular hostile mob, they would have 50% chance of surviving, however, if you poison a humob, it will divide up that chance into 25% chance of surviving." the vampire stated, "Why did you have to say that, huh, Corentine?" Chrome groaned, "I just want to see their reactions." the vampire now known as Corentine giggled sickeningly sweet.
"This means war!" Azekah, Chale, Abaddon, and Thanatos roared out, "Ara~? I'll let my father know, tatah!" Corentine stated as she hugged Chrome and kissed him fully in the lips, disappearing in a small gust of wind, "That traitorous scum! I knew we shouldn't have trusted that human!" Chale roared out as everyone all had angry and determined expressions, "Why, Chrome?" Stella thought one last time as she fell asleep.
"Stella!" someone familiar sounding shouted as he jump straight in front of the giant Dew Drop taking the full blunt of the attack while a smoke appeared around him, "To think that someone still thinks about harming her." the smoke is still present, "That voice... It's Chrome's, why does it sound so... warm?" Stella thought while the smoke cleared to see another Chrome in a rugged looking attire that could make her blush if the scene in front of her wasn't so serious.
Stella couldn't believe their eyes, in front of her were not one but two Chromes, the other one seems to be really mad while the other one had a smug grin, "I vowed to my life that no harm will befall to her!" the newly arrived Chrome stated, "I will not forgive anybody who do so... not even myself!" he continued, "Well isn't it ironic, you're fighting yourself." the 'Chrome' with the vampiric cloak stated snickering, "Even so, to keep Stella safe... I'll even fight myself if I have to!"
"Try as you might but you won't be able to defeat me, being powerless at this very moment." 'Chrome' mocked the original, "You should stop while you're still ah- What?!" 'Chrome' Quickstep away from his spot as he notice the original appearing just as fast from his location, "What's wrong, afraid of powerless, little o'le me?!" Chrome shouted with a mocking tone as the fake Chrome tried his hardest to keep his distance from the original with Quickstep, "What is this?! He's powerless yet his keeping up with me... Those two said to not worry about him but..."
The fake Chrome Quickstep down back to the ground but used it once more seeing the original at his position once more, "How dare you!" Chrome shouted while aiming a punch at the fake one only for him to hit the sorry ground. The ground ruptured causing small and large pieces of the earth to fly up in the air, "You don't want close quarters combat?! How about some distance then!" Chrome began punching and kicking the pieces at the fake 'Chrome' who began firing lots of Dew Drop.
The smoke suddenly appeared at the meeting point of the projectiles however when the smoke cleared the fake 'Chrome' widened his eyes in surprise as the original one was gone, "I knew it, from behind or above?!" the fake 'Chrome thought as he heard cracking from underneath, "Below?! Aagh!" the fake 'Chrome' suddenly went flying straight up into the sky, "I'm not done yet!" the original shouted as he was preparing to jump which so happen broke the ground.
He then jumped surprisingly catching up with the flying body of the fake this time the original hugged the fake one with a bear like grip and started spinning back down, head first, "Falling Comet!" the original shouted letting go of the fake which so happened to be three feet under, "Bear Style: Cub's Tantrum!" the original said as he took hold of the fake's ankles and pulled him up while starting to hit the ground and anything around him using the fake's body like a mace.
While on the sideline, the royalty who is still conscious was none other than the colossus skeleton; Stella, who were shrinking back down to her normal size however, the crossbow on her wrist and back is still there albeit proportional for her personal use. Watching while trying to get up from her sitting position, vulnerable, "I knew it... He would never do such a thing... And yet..." Stella thought as she was crying now, "He's been there for me... when I really need him the most..."
"I thought he abandoned me but when I'm about to die, he appeared once more..." she was at this point bawling her eyes out as she continued watching the fight with misty eyes, "I need to get rid his source of strength... Yes... That's perfect!" the fake thought as he suddenly Quickstep behind Stella taking her hostage, "Don't move an inch!" the fake shouted at the original as he immediately stopped, the gap between them is ten blocks, "Weighing the options, if she dies, you'll go in a berserk state which would ultimately kill me and thousands of people, however, how about if I take her hostage and. Make. Her. Mine?"
The original one was silent, how couldn't he?, "I've won the battle, original." the fake said as he licked Stella's left ear while tears flowed out even more from her, "Save me, Chrome!" she thought as she couldn't move an inch because of fatigue, "You may have won the battle but you haven't won the war, fake!" the original shouted with a rather feral smile, "Jingu bang!" he shouted which confused the fake, "Either way, tatah~!" the fake finally said but his smile ceased to exist as he can't seem to use Quickstep.
"You should know by now that Quickstep... is not teleportation." the original said as his head is still hanging low, "The ability at first seems to be teleporting magic but truth be told, it's actually a time class magic." the original raised his head up which revealed a sinister smile plastered to his face, "Let's say you're in a room and you want to go to the other room across it. It will take you an estimate of 5 to 9 seconds but with Quickstep, it'll let you get to there within 0.5 seconds."
"However, you didn't teleport... You're body actually did the process of walking while your brain and everything else is in stasis." the original explained, "However, if you were to be attached to a chain..." the original chuckled menacingly, "You're body won't be able to move." the fake than looked at his feet and noticed that a red pole of sort were wrapped tightly around his left ankle, "Oh? Do you happen to know what that is?" the original noticed where the fake were looking at and laughed.
"H-how did get this-" the fake was about to say until he was cut off by the original, "Into the ground?" the original finished, "I planted it down when I happened to punch the ground once." he explained making his eyes widen, "Then how did this pole wrapped around my ankle?!" the fake one exclaimed as said pole suddenly wrapped the fake one's entire body forcing the fake to let go of Stella, "If you translate the name, it means The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod. It complies with every whim of the owner, it'll grow, shrink, become longer or even become shorter, and finally it can multiply."
"Did I also mention, it weighs over 17,550 pounds?" the original has a smirk and as if on cue the fake one dropped down to the ground with a noticeable crater made during the impact, "If only you could use Hidden Grotto, no?" the original mocked as he slowly inched towards him but Stella noticed something is wrong, the fake one were smiling while hiding it from the original, "Oh no!" Stella thought as she took out the giant crossbow on her back and tried her very best to aim behind the real Chrome.
"I've won!" the fake suddenly appeared behind the original pulling out a knife that is dipped in poison with his right hand, "What?" the original exclaimed as he tried his best to spin fast enough but was too late, "I'm the real- Aaugh!" the fake's joint in his right arm suddenly got pierce by a 4 feet long and two inch thick bolt causing an absurd amount of pain to the fake, "I need to retreat!" the fake suddenly thought as he was prepping to do Quickstep, "Hold it right there! I need a 'helping hand'!"
The original suddenly shot his right arm forward and grabbed hold of the stick and pulled all before the fake got to Quickstep away. In doing so resulted in a brutal and horrifying decapitation of the fake's arm once the fake Quickstep away, "I didn't mean it literally." the original stated with a sweat drop while dropping said arm, "Chrome, is that really you?" he heard someone say and looked towards the source of the sound.
"Is that really you, the real one?" he saw Stella asking while limping towards him, "As real as I could ever get." he chuckled as Stella once more cried but this time it was tears of joy flowing down from her cheeks, he noticed this and widened his arms open for an embrace, however, when they were only a block away, Stella were enveloped in a large ball of flame, "Stella!" Chrome cried out as he punches the ball of flame with so much force that the air did its job and splits the flame in half.
"Princess Stella, are you alright?!" Ivor appeared at the nick of time, seeing that Stella was slowly approaching Chrome that he thought she was hypnotized, "Ivor! You dumb ass, you bloody scared the hell out of me!" Chrome shouted at Ivor who let the princess down, "Of course, I'm not alright!" Stella were to say the least peeved about Ivor's action, "How dare you talk to me casually, trash." Ivor said in a low tone, "So what if I'm trash, I'm trying my best to be one's treasure."
"I got nothing to retort with..." Ivor thought as he sweat dropped, "Odd, he accepted the fact that he was trash now than before... Has he come back?" he thought as he scrutinizes Chrome then down to his body, "What the hell? How did he get so ripped?" Ivor thought about that he kept on exercising and getting odd jobs from the royalties as he sulks a bit, Chrome noticed and is holding in his laugh, "Incoming firecracker." Sun Wukong warned as he suddenly got serious and looked at the projectile flying towards him.
He just side stepped it however, the small projectile exploded immediately while he is in the surprisingly large blast radius, "Stella, are you alright?!" Cupa and the rest of the chemical X poisoned royalty appeared in front of her, "Take that you scum!" Cupa shouted at Chrome and when the smoke cleared, he wasn't really amused with her childish antics, "Not now, princess Cupa." Chrome said as he tilts his head left and right making four separate cracking sounds, "I need to ask a few questions."
"You don't deserve answers, you low-life!" Rot said with seething rage, his arm morphing back and forth in an unstable transformation due to his rage making him lose his control, "N-no! Let's at least give him some answers!" Stella stated firmly which made the poisoned princes and princesses to look at her strangely, "Why?! He's the one who poisoned us, Stella, why should we give him answers that he may already know?!" Yaebi exclaimed with barely controlled rage, "He doesn't deserve our trust anymore when he pulled that traitorous act off!"
"N-no, he's different..." Stella trailed off making them even more confused, "There's only one Chrome in existence! There can't possibly be two!" Andria pointed out the seemingly obvious point, "You were all knocked out! There were two Chromes! That one just appeared and saved me from the giant Dew Drop!" Stella pointed out, "Alright, let's answer his questions, what is it?" Ivor stated as they all look at Chrome, "Who started the war?" he asked as Rot was about to charge at him only to be held by his twin brother, "You started it you low-life!"
"Calm down, Rot!" Yaebi said to his twin brother as he is surprisingly not struggling in holding him down, "Okay, If I started it, why are there vampires fighting?" he asked which proved Ivor's and Stella's suspicions, "This is not the same Chrome who backstabbed all of us." they both thought, "You were working with them, how the nether should we know about it?!" Cupa replied back confused and furious at the same time; proving to be the deadliest mix in blinding someone from the truth, "Okay final question."
"Do you want to end the war?" Chrome asked surprising the six of them, "Y-yes, please!" Stella suddenly shouted at him, "As you wish." he bowed then suddenly jumped high up until the clouds and sun concealed him from view, "I may need your voice." "Whatever. Just make sure you see the vampires' reactions."
"Vampires, hear me, if you value your lives then stop fighting, AT ONCE!" Chrome then appeared through the clouds walking down the air like there were stairs there; however, there is now a crescent moon on his forehead, the two tips at the end facing high in the sky, while his cape was flowing towards his left wildly. On his right hand is the Ruyi Jingu Bang emitting an aura of holy-like fire, his cape in the same state as well a large monkey tail behind him waving left and right (just search Smite Wukong, you'll be able to picture the tail), "If you don't then I'll have some fun!"
Chrome suddenly went straight to the front lines, in between the vampires and the humob soldiers, "Hyah!" Chrome started sweeping the vampires back extending the staff as he swings it with enough force to trim a mountain's height from the base of it, "Run or risk your life!" Chrome began on a rampage as he is causing havoc across the ranks of the vampires until all the vampires started retreating, the pure blooded ran away because they know the truth about Sun Wukong while the others ran away due to all of them witnessing what this man could do.
Chrome watched the vampires retreat knowing that their fire resistance potion is gonna run out as well. Turning to the left he flared out his cape that is still burning, his eyes emitting an aura of the same holy-like fire while facing the army of humobs. He looked down to his hands and then gripped it emitting a stronger aura of holy fire while intently looking at the army, Stella started squirming in pain around as the mark on her left arm started glowing with an aura of holy fire and began moving down her arm and on to the back of her hand.
Once it was glowing it began changing shape to that of a crescent moon and finally, the glow dissipated but then it glowed once more as she heard Chrome's voice, "Judging the reaction of your friends... I'm afraid that my promise to you wasn't kept... and for that, I don't deserve to call you by your name or even be at your presence." he said in her head as he continued, "I'm afraid to say this but... we'll have to start over from scratch until then I will see you when I am required."
Before Stella could even say something, the glow disappeared leaving the red orange crescent moon on the back of her left hand, "Chrome..." she looked up sadly knowing what he said were true because of that traitorous act towards half of the mob royalties. It'll take a long time for all of them to even look at Chrome without trying to kill him. She sighed knowing that she'll have to make the longest report out of six of them and thus began to slowly go back to her father's kingdom.
That's the end of this chapter! I'm trying my best to write and write so I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, it isn't really that easy to write when you have mental block but I powered through! So with that out of the way!
I hope you all have a pleasant Day/Night! :D