Boss Battle Chapter Twenty: Words of Hope And Despair
Black's POV
Fuck! White's passed out and now I have to deal with this little bringer of death by myself! I grit my teeth, running as fast as I could with White held in my arms as right as vices bridal style, her head resting on my right, soft, small breast that bounced slightly with every step I took. But I didn't care even an atom about that. All I cared a of was getting the FUCK away from this little girl!
"You can run, but you can't hide!", The girl screamed out in a hoarse, disturbing voice that twisted and turned my very mind in various ways as I ran past many distinctive obstacles.
Mainly wooden splinters hanging down from the roof or poking out from either the bloodied walls or the moss-infested floorboards that moaned and creaked loudly with every single step both I and the girl took. The burden I held was as high as a fucking skyscraper, my heart flames and pulsated like the rock hard core of a dying sun as beads of my salty-sweet sweat dripped off my forehead. I panted, but deep down in my heart, I knew that this was nowhere near my capability. I can run and run forever and ever if I wanted to! I won't die here! Not now, not ever! Even if it means to punish myself! I grit my teeth twice as hard, putting on a small smile as I saw the ending of the corridor gradually come closer and closer towards me, like I wasn't moving at all.
I blinked, holding onto the sleeping White as right as possible, staring solely at the upcoming, dark brown wall that looked like a complete dead end, intimidating me a slight bit, but, because of the fact that I had White in my arms and everyone else's hopes stuck inside of my very crystal heart, I kept my smile of confidence and cockiness...
"DEAD END BLACK! WHY DON'T YOU JUST TURN AROUND AND DIE TO MY THIRSTY BLADE?!", The girl cried in a demonic manner, causing me to grunt silently and grit my teeth twice as hard, STILL holding that smile that could vanquish a thousand foes in the blink of an eye!
Soon, I was only about a good thirty meters away from the ending, finally spotting it's devastating, blood coated spiked that stuck out of it exactly one meter in length. But I smiled and kept pushing through, not giving up the slightest as I believed in my potential. I can do anything if I put my mind to it! I WON'T DIE!
"LAST CHANCE TO STOP!", She cried as a metallic clank accompanied the endless creaking and tapping of our footsteps on this wooden, old, moss-eaten floorboards that were as weak as stacked paper.
I opened my mouth, ready to speak my words as I was a mere twenty meters away from the spike infested wall, smiling much more warmly in pure confidence to my actions as the fear that was introduced into my body from before became my awakener and my motivation to win and to never die!
"I WILL NEVER GIVE IN!", I screamed with all my might, feeling my left eye begin to burn up and emit an amazing light red light that lit up the right path in front of me as the child gasped before letting out an incredible scream that filled my heart and soul with extreme joy and extra motivation to do what I have to do... I blinked once more, nodding once to no one in particular as I was only ten meters away now, seeing the spikes of the wall point at me without a hint of mercy for anyone... "AND I WILL NEVER LOSE!", I screamed those words and leapt towards the spikes, holding onto White as tightly as possible, watching carefully at them as I forced myself to rotate and tilt, making my feet NOW in the lead of my excruciatingly fast lunge, carefully looking down to make sure that not even a single spike was in the way. We glided in the air gracefully with extraordinary speed, probably breaking the speed barrier with the blunt force of my shoes as I watched and felt the soles of my shoes BURST through the wall, causing us to slip right into another room as a spike passed my face. Haha! I knew I could do it! I smiled much more vividly, hearing the little girl gasp in pure shock and terror to how I was able to pull of something like that from the brink of death and in the middle of desperation along with a good dose of insanity!
The moment my eyes finally met the ceiling of the new place, I blinked and studied it before quickly spinning my body around in mid air and forcing myself to tilt diagonally, facing the ground at a higher angle than my feet. At once, my feet touched the ground and clamped hard on them, causing a mass amount of friction to nearly combust the soles of my shoes that now glowed a bright red as I skidded backwards with a smile STILL plastered across my white, soft face that wielded my light red, glowing eye and my light blue, passive one. The floor was a nice coloured wood, light brown, and wasn't hollow like the other floorboards. This room was quiet large, ranging to around sixty meters in height and length whist large, towering, white roman pillars dotted the entire place in order to keep the heavy, black stone ceiling in place. The lighting of the room emitted from the pillars themselves, releasing a strange fluorescent glow that covered EVERYTHING in this room. I snorted some carbon through my nose, smiling as I stared straight ahead at the brown, wooden wall I busted through to see the little girl staring right at me with a deathly smile plastered across her face, amused of what I had done.
To be honest, she was adorable, but at the same time, EXTREMELY deadly. She walked through the opening slowly and giggled for an unknown reason, looking like she had taken a liking towards me... I hope so. I do NOT want to die by the hands of a little girl! Especially not one like this one! The one who corrupted White's pure heart of Whiteness with a horrifying image!
"Ahahaha! Now we can play!", She laughed childishly, holding her so called 'Blade' in her right hand that happened to be a golden, two meter rod that had both the tips coloured in silver. Her hair was he colour of gold, tied up in a twin tail that reached down to her waist as she wore a strange, magical dress that had many ambient colours of red, white and blue in strange fashions. Looking somewhat similar to a canvas that a Mage drew on. I sniffed the cold, fresh air once through my nose before slowly bending down to my knees and softly placed White down onto the cold, hard floor as the girl suddenly stopped laughing and spoke once again. "Let's decide your fate, shall we? If you win, I will happily lift the curse from this mansion and free everyone inside, but, if you lose... Then everyone but you and White will be freed!"... Not a chance in hell I'm loosing!
"You wish... I'm not easy... Not will I ever be!", I exclaimed the last word and instantly let go of White, allowing her to rest on the floorboards by herself before sprinting up and pulling my right hand high behind my head, grasping onto the charcoal-black handle of my legendary Blade, Ezarca. As fast as possible, I unseethed it out with the classic metallic scrape that never got old and held the blade right in front of my waist, gently extending out my left hand to the side, smiling as I did so. "I will beat you! But be warned, I'm not here to kill a little girl in order to save my friends! I plan on saving you too!", I exclaimed and channelled an extraordinary amount of darkness into my left hand, causing an amazing, glowing black flame engulf my left hand almost entirely which greatly intimidated the little girl who seemed to have a change of facial expression...
"Do you honestly think you can win against a reaper? And did you really think that I'm truly a little girl?", she asked in a strange, horrifying tone of voice that gazed out of her pink, small lips as she stared at me with her bloodshot, devilish-red eyes that pierced my heart and soul with infinite spears of terror. Suddenly and out of any laws of physics or logic, she grew taller to about my height after a split second flash of white that caused me to cringe slightly and gasp to how real and to how frightening it was... Reapers... I've killed one before, but I won't be killing her! As long as she still has the mind and the heart of a person, I'll be able to influence her with my words and magic! Let's hope for the best!
Quickly, I retracted my left arm back to my side tightly, feeling an extreme boost of energy blast throughout my entire body as my blade shone and glistened like a dying glow stick, emitting an amazing red and black colour that boosted up my hopes and confidence greatly.
"Golden Thruster!", She exclaimed in a sudden laughter as her dark and murky facial expression exploded with happiness and joy, making me double think about trying to persuade her... It may not be possible. Quickly and almost instantly, the golden rod that she now held in both her hands glowed a bright white amazingly, blinding me momentarily as I cringed and took a careful step back, not wanting to tread over the sleeping White who had more than enough of the situation at hand.
The golden rod expanded out to a good five meters in length, towering up high over and behind her right shoulder as she clamped tightly onto it with both of her white, soft hands. I was in pure, utter shock as my eyes were filled in disbelief to what happened next... I grit my teeth, took another careful step back as I watched the tip of the golden rod suddenly sprout out a four sharp, rectangular pieces of solid gold before it sprouted out even MORE. My heart ached, my right hand tightened around the charcoal-black handle of my Ezarca as I anxiously stared up at the logic-breaking transformation of the golden rod...
"Behold!", She cried out at the top of her lungs with excitement and enthusiasm as I watched the massive rod's tip finally transform into a huge, cylinder shape that had silver spikes dotting it like a mace... "The Golden Thruster!", she announced, followed with an eerie,
demonic laugh that curled my blood and prickled my skin as my mind could barely comprehend what on EARTH was going on... "Haha! Once I'm done with you, White will be next!"...
No. Never. There's no way that I'll lose! Not now, not EVER! Quickly, I blankly blinked as I turned my head to the left slightly, averting my eyes from the demonic, killer-crazed girl and looked down at White. Her chest inflated and deflated ever so slightly as she had a cute, passive smile plastered across her white, soft face, causing me to smile warmly. My heart thumped softly, easing my soul and mind to the current situation almost instantly all because of her... I won't lose... I won't loose another person I love...
"Eat my hammer you disgrace!", The girl screamed as the floor shook all of a sudden, causing me to look forwards in a mere quarter of a second to see her racing up to me with her golden, massive hammer held far behind her back with both her arm to the right of her, causing my smile to broaden by an inch. "GOLDEN STRIKE!", She cried with a hoarse, blood curling voice that made me react violently as I dashed right up to her, resisting the laws of physics and logic altogether, holding my blade tightly in my right hand and my black magic in my left.
"Be less predictable!", I exclaimed, watching her hammer swing right at me, aiming for my upper half. It looked like a blur in the wind and emitted an annoying whistle as it's blunt, circular head forced friction to step in and revolt against it with a lethal dose of logic. As fast as I could, in the matter of a heart beat, I dropped down to my knees, bending my legs as I held my blade close to my chest in a diagonal manner, watching her golden, spike infested hammer just pass my face by a terrifying inch as one of the spikes managed to slash a small portion of my right cheek deeply. It burnt and stung as painfully as hydrochloric acid and ethanol being poured into an exposed wound, causing me to grunt quietly as I grit my teeth to battle the pain head on. I've been hurt much more before! Immediately right after her hammer had completely passed my head, I sprung up to my feet, smashing my right foot back behind me before lunging myself towards the defenceless Reaper who's eyes widened to my sudden movement, taking a step back as I quickly closed the small gap in between us in a single moment. Reluctantly, I slashed at her with a backhanded slice, only to be dodged by a small hop backwards by her as she pulled her hammer back to her right side again, not wasting any time to send another brutal, horizontal smash that had more than enough force to topple an entire building down by force. Instinctively, I ducked down to my knees again, watching her hammer as I held my blade in front of my face with teeth clenched as tight as vices, expecting it to miss me again. Suddenly, the hammer lowered down to the ground, smashing into the brown, wooden floorboards with excruciating force that caused my heart to thump terribly hard as my eyes widened in pure shock and horror. Shit! I fell into her trap!
"DIE!", She screamed as the horrifying sound of the ground being torn up and destroyed filled the very room eerily, forcing my soul to take various actions that even I would never make.
"NEVER!", I snapped back as I held my blade's handle with both my hands, instantly springing up into the air a good three meters high as I watched the girl spin around and giggle like an evil little girl who has nothing left to lose... My miniskirt flickered as my hair rose up behind me like the tail of a peacock, greatly intimidating her as she too, sprung up towards me with her hammer swung again in full motion, looking like a vertical, classic hammer-and-nail attack. Dammit! I have to block this! There's no other choice!
"Accept your fate!", She cried as I grunted loudly, tightening my hands around the soft, firm handle of my Ezarca and instantly, projected my arms forwards with the blade in order to defend myself from her lethal golden hammer.
"I follow my own path!", I cried out at the top of my lungs in pure, utter desperation as my blade connected with her hammer, emitting one hell of a loud, echoey clank. My eyes stung slightly to the massive shockwave that exploded out from the impact as the laws of physics decided to take a nap due to the given fact that we were suspended in MID AIR with absolutely no means or causes to why. But I didn't care less about that. What I cared about was our clash. The clash that's determine one's fate entirely and the flow of the battle! I won't loose!...
"Black! Don't lose!", A female cry of fear and worry emitted from down under us to my left, causing my eyes to widen as my body's strength seemed to vent away like something was sucking it right out of me... The red, vibrant glow in my left eye lessened for a brief moment before suddenly sparking up to flames the moment the sound of a crack from right in front of me caught my immediate attention... My soul shattered. My heart ached as hard as a punch to the chest and my mind functioned slowly, unable to comprehend what was currently happening to my... Ezarca...
"Goodbye, Black Heart", The girl smiled vividly as I watched her hammer's blunt, destructive head begin to crack my legendary blade slowly. The cracks resembled the roots of a grand tree and emitted a white, pure light of power, shining in my multicoloured eyes unbelievably... It's... Going to break... And I'll be killed right after... Dammit! I won't die here! And I won't die in front of White! I WILL WIN! "Have a nice trip to the Underworld!".
Ok... Ok... OK! I only have once shot of this and if this doesn't work, then I'm sorry everyone! Hesitantly, I released my blade with my right hand and reeled it far up behind my head as fast as I could, feeling all of the immense pressure begin to thrash at my left, lone hand, causing it to burn and sting in pain. Dammit! My blade and hand isn't going to last much longer! No pain, no bloody gain! Finally, my right hand grasped desperately onto the handle of my secondary blade, Night's Melody, as I watched and heard the distinctive snapping and cracking of metal chipping off due to the blunt, extremely powerful attack of her hammer that could take on literally anything...
"BLACK!", White screamed out my name as I stared into the demonic, blood orangey eyes of the girl who returned them with a vivid smile across her face, causing my lips to curve themselves into a warm, friendly smile... Two more chips of my blade snapped off, exposing a great amount of light that began to drown my vision progressively, resembling the shining rays of the sun... We still hovered in the same place, colliding out weapons of mass destruction together in an unfair brawl of who's weapon's better. Obviously, she's going to win this clash. But unfortunately for her, I don't go down as easy.
With all the power I could muster with my right hand and greatly ignoring the vast amount of pain striking my left, I pulled out the Night's Melody from a metallic black, glossy case from my back and swung it downwards, feeling my index finger suddenly press against a hard, comfortable trigger that caused my eyes to broaden as wide as day. It all came back to me. My lost memories about this weapon and how I've used it before... Like this weapon was meant for me in this form...
I pointed the invisible tip of the gun at her stomach, holding steady as we both shared diabolical stares and smiles that gave off a slight feeling of friendship... She had completely no idea about my gun due to the mass amount of light emitting from deep within the core of my blade, brightening up the room as I watched and felt it speak it's last phrase... A deafening, horrific screech of metal screamed at us from the inside of my blade the very moment her hammer, finally broke thought my blade...
Time slowed down to the point where time seemed to stop, presenting me a both breathtaking and saddening image of a thousand tiny shards of glowing red and black pieces of my legendary blade... They suspended in mid air right in front of me, looking like frozen hail as the golden, massive hammer slowly made it's way towards me, completely obliterating the shards of my sword upon the slightest touch... My long, jet black hair suspended behind me like blackened flames of the Underworld as my left, light red eye flickered and emitted an intense, transparent aura around my left eye. Haha! I remember this feeling! The feeling of complete and utter victory!
"Let's play", I whispered before finally, I pulled my right index finger on the trigger of my large, metallic-grey, extremely powerful cannon... At once, right before my very eyes, I experienced a face full of hammer as she took in a high particle charge of my cannon point blank to the stomach, causing me to laugh on the inside as this truly was an eye for an eye. A mass amount of energy and photonic balls of light discharged from in between us in a spectacular manner, resembling an explosion of light right before her hammer followed through it's blunt attack on the left side of my face, sending me flying back like a bullet, still smiling as there literally was not ONE scratch on my face due to a little trick I learnt using my black magic... A trick that I used to withstand the 'Witch's Limbo' for a good three minutes the moment I shot out the giant, blue particle ball from the tip of my ultimate weapon. Haha! That's how I got myself into that coma if I remember correctly!... Well, sorta!
Looking straight ahead, deeply into the darkened ceiling that whizzed by me every passing mini second, I gripped the handle of the light grey, metallic cannon that was strapped around my right forearm entirely, with the trigger laying deep inside of it where my index finger silently rested on it... Just like that, I collided with one of the large, white Roman pillars head on, causing it to explode into a massive white clouds of debris as my light grey, cat like ears folded themselves over my head, slightly digging into my now messy, jet black long hair that freely roamed behind me like an attached shadow. I fell down to the ground on my feet, not sustaining a single wound as the pillar toppled over behind me in a noisy manner, causing me to cringe slightly as I stared off at the distance to see the girl struggling to stand upright due to the intense wound I inflicted onto her stomach. The hammer's head lay on the ground at an angle as the pole was tightly grasped by both her hands that trailed behind her to the right...
"Impossible! My attack should've killed you instantly!", She yelled in a fit of fury, gritting her teeth as tight as vices as I simply smiled warmly at her, trying to prove that no matter what she pulls of, I won't lose. "Just how powerful ARE you?!".
"It's not power, it motive and willpower along with determination! Those three are what makes me so powerful!", I announced proudly with a smile on my face, causing her to growl at me as a passive, calming breeze blew from the left for an unknown reason, fluttering my attire and hair to the right in a mesmerising manner.
"Willpower?! Impossible! No one wins with willpower!", She cried, letting out a horrible moan of pain before suddenly letting to of her massive golden, spike infested hammer, making the both of the golden rod smash against the ground right in front of her which literally sunk in a good two inches deep inside with a loud, ear-splitting smash. White, toxic fumes of the ground ejected up into the air for a brief moment before suddenly disappearing into the very thin air... "And especially... Especially...", She paused, slowly broadening her eyes as tears began to form at the corner of her amazing, sunset coloured eyes that caused me to blink blankly and regret my actions towards her greatly... How empathetic can I possibly be!? Her right hand immediately clenched onto her bloodied stomach, grasping onto the ragged, blood-stained dress that she wore, trembling as more and more tears formed in the corner of her eyes... "Why didn't you kill me with that shot? Why do you care so much about others even if they're evil?", She whimpered sadly in a saddening tone of voice that REALLY sounded like a normal person... She fell down to her knees, landing harshly onto the hard, wooden floorboards that was coated in her blood that dripped from her thighs like calming rivers of crimsons.
"Because... Because I think everyone can change and be who they want to be no matter who or what they are", I stated, blinking and giving her a warm smile before taking a confident, heart
warming step towards her, causing the floorboards to creak and moan in pain, sounding like it was on the verge to dying.
"Don't play with me! No one thinks like that! You're Black Heart! You can't have hope! We can't have hope!", She cried desperately, finally letting her crystal clear, salty tears run down her cheeks like unforgiving currents of a rapid. They glowed and sparkled in the gloomy lighting of the room, allowing me to smile a tiny bit more widely and warmer as I continued to walk towards her in an orderly fashion, showing no signs of hostility whatsoever. Heck, even my cannon disappeared from around my right forearm without me even noticing! "Stay away! You're just like me! Both unable to communicate with others because of who we are!".
"Don't say that", I said with passion, feeling the back of my eyes sting as my vision blurred slightly, making me sniff the cold, dusty air though my nose as I took another step towards her, now only a good eight meters away from her... "Please don't...".
She paused slightly, gaping her mouth by an inch, showing her two, sharp, vampire-like teeth that lay on the top row of her jaw, looking dangerously close to mine which filled me in with many memories of Her... Mindy... Her eyes trembled and her tears fell like waterfalls of a calm river, making me blink to the mind boggling imagery of Ruby invading my mind as this scenario reminded me so much about what happened just a year ago... The tears we shared, the laughs and adventures...
"How can you have so much hope that it doesn't kill you?", She sobbed as I stopped in my tracks abruptly, staring down at her with my head tilted to the right slightly as my shadow cast over her like a tree. I blinked one, final time, dropping down to my knees in a harsh manner, slamming them down against the cold hard ground with a thud. No pain entered my body just yet. I STILL have my magic going on inside of me, enhancing my muscles and cancelling out any sort of pain... Even despair...
"I don't know... Maybe it's the fact that I've been following the path of light nearly my entire life", I whispered to her warmly, slowly holding out my arms to the side as I leaned towards her and wrapped my arms around her tightly, embracing her with my warmth and pure love that filled her soul to it's maximum capacity... "Don't every cry. Don't ever think that you have to be bad because of what you are. Just be yourself..."... The way her heart beat. The way she endured my kindness and my words... They all made sense to why she was doing this and why she cared less about others...
Child of Despair's POV
Just who is she?
My Mom?
My Doll?
My Guide?
My Sister?
My Love?
My Partner?
My Shadow?
My Inner Voice?
My Soul?...
For the first time in my life, I've felt my heart beat for a reason the moment she hugged me... The way she talked and stared into my eyes... She lit up the darkened path of my life entirely in the blink of an eye and even spared me even tho I was the reason for so many misfortunes in that place... Honestly... I think I have an idea for who she is...
"My World...", I whispered to myself as I watched her hug White tightly out of worry, causing me to smile warmly at her...
"Hope for the way to be lit, less it be smeared in black".
"Even the blackest of hearts can believe in such light to exist inside of them".
"Despair, Hope, the two major factors that makes humans so unique. They fall into despair but yet some keep the light of hope in their hearts to defeat despair...".