Boss Battle Chapter Twenty Two: Troll Of The Bridge
Black's POV
Dammit! It's atomic bindings are weaved too tightly for neither of out blades to penetrate it! Let alone vibrate to the intense endothermic heat of out explosive sniper rounds! Black, steam-like smoke lifted from the solid brass coloured metallic golem that was shaped similarly to a a boulder with arms, legs and even a head. Strange, orangey-golden blunt curves of metal stuck out from it's shoulder blades along with four demonic black, shiny horns stuck out of it's metal cranium. It bared hot red, LED lights that shone as bright as a star as it's mouth sealed itself from revealing whatever lies inside. In it's right hand, was a massive, dark purple, one sided axe that rested on it's shoulder to maintain the weight of it. Damn this clunk of metal! If a point blank shot from a sharp bullet won't work nor does a superheated explosion, then we're going to have to take it to the extreme. This may be the first time we'll be fighting something that holds the definition of 'hard'... This should be fun! Haha!
"White! Cover me", I commanded with a loud, demanding voice as I clenched my blade tightly with my right hand, holding it far out to my right side like a razor sharp wing. Dust kicked up into the air along with the light green grass exploded like confetti behind me, giving me an intimidating, magical effect as I stared up at the twenty meter high Guardian that gazed down at me with it's horrifying, glowing crimson eyes that showed no mercy whatsoever. The distance in between us quickly closed off in a matter of eight seconds flat, feeling and hearing the wind scream horrifyingly into my pointy grey cat-like ears as I ran as fast as could up to the huge hunk of metal. As keen and nimble as a cat, I jumped up into the air a good four meters, reaching right up to it's left kneecap as the sound of a roaring engine exploded from behind the machine, causing my eyes to widen slightly the moment I knew what it was. It's secondary weapons! As fast as I could, I pressed my feet onto it's left, circular knee that looked like brass balls and crouched before launching myself upwards even more, hearing and smelling super heated sulphur and carbon dioxide in the air as black, toxic clouds shrouded the back side of the robot, giving me one big hint of what it's weapon may be... Fucking launch and forget missiles! I smiled slightly, feeling my attire lift up as my long, jet black hair hovered calmly around me as if time stopped all of a sudden. This time, I was directly on it's chest that was plated with multiple layers of both reinforced iron, steel, copper and even aluminium! Whoever made this thing must be one hell of a mad scientist!
Luckily for me, a small platform was laid out just in front of the chest of the machine, allowing me to step onto it and get ready to jump up once again before suddenly, my heart skipped an entire three beats the moment the upper piece of the chest, just below the head, suddenly flipped over to reveal a good thirty Gatling guns already primed for fire, spinning round and around as fast as a jet engine. My eyes widened, sweat dripped from my forehead as this scenario was too shocking for me to even consume. It tainted my sane mind, taunting it with deathly whispers and messages about death as the sound of the crackling missiles drew near from far behind, ready to bombard me and turn me into a pile of rotting flesh. Dammit... I won't allow my will to break that easily while I still stand! Argh!
"EAT THIS!", White screamed out at the top of her lungs RIGHT before the sound of a muffled explosion sounded from far behind, echoing once in my mind as time seemed to stop for a brief minute... The barrels of the Gatling guns slowed down, slowly emitting a faint red glow of fire and heat from deep inside the jet black barrels, forcing me to make a decision. Fight or flight... What'll it be?... Gah! I don't have a lot of time!... Flight... Come on! Come on! Think brain! Don't leave me on my own!... Hold on a second... The Gatling guns aren't made out of the same materials as the shell... I blinked blankly before narrowing my red and blue eyes, staring deeply at the black coloured, rotating barrels of death and knew exactly what to do... But now is not the right time. If time resumes, then I'll earn a one-way ticket to the underworld. And it won't just be one ticket. It'll be a hundred thousand tickets!
"Flight!", I exclaimed, gritting me teeth before launching myself five meters into the air backwards, witnessing the bullets barrage at where I just was with brute, merciless force as a terribly loud explosion sounded from right behind me, causing my ears to nearly burst like a drum beat too hard, inflicting several painful migraines. Nevertheless, I smiled, staring at the robot before a hellish flame of red and black consumed me, blackening my vision almost entirely. My skirt lifted up slightly, my blade was still held in my right hand, sticking out to the side like a wing as a black flame engulfed my left hand entirely. Before I knew it, I was out of the blinding flames of the missiles and landed back to the ground with an intense force, crouching slightly as I skidded back to the group who each held out their weapons. White stood to my right while Nova was on my left, anxiously and nervously gazing upon the super massive chunk of metal stand before us with it's miniguns slowly tilting downwards, ready to point RIGHT at us.
"Fight!", Melody exclaimed, making me crackle for a very brief second as the guns locked onto us and began to spin excruciatingly slowly before cranking up their pace to the speed of sound in a good three seconds.
"Work as a team and we'll be able to beat this thing!", White stated before the first, flaming, super heated bullet was fired directly at me, causing me to smile as a surge of power began to invade my very bloodstream, all flowing to my right, light red eye that now emitted a bright glow of power and confidence.
"Then I'll keep it's guns busy while you guys attack it's exposed guns! Also, White, you take out any rockets fired from it's back!", I announced proudly, jumping forward as I let go of the reel that held my right arm to the side, allowing it to slice its way through the rough air back towards my face as the bullet grew nearer and nearer to my face.
"Got it!", Melody replied and at once, rushed up ahead, standing clear of the centre path as that's where the 'death' zone currently is. The others swiftly followed in suit, all grasping holding onto their weapons tightly as I stared deeply at the lead bullet that was no more than a good two meters away, close enough to taste the furious tip of my Night's Melody. Like a molten knife through butter, my blade completely sliced it into two pieces, causing them to launch inaccurately to the sides in an amazing manner. I smiled slightly, staring at the barrage of bullets fired from the machine's Gatling gun that looked almost exactly like a swarm of wasps. The guns fired like explosions and I could feel my skin begin to tingle to the excitement of the fight. Haha! Let's just see how long I can dance in the bombardment of fire!
"Melody! Shoot the guns with your arrows!", I exclaimed in pure laughter as I began to spin around playfully, moving from side to side as I swung my blade effortlessly at the barrage of bullets, slicing every single one of the ones that would've hit me point blank while the others bombarded the light green earth below me, inflicting a mass amount of damage to the grass.
Haha! The spectacular green grass along with the light brown earth sprouted upwards for every bullet that made impact with the ground, causing them to surround me as I danced with the flow of the bullets, slicing them into halves with the tip of my blade whilst I dodged the majority of them. But even so, I kept an eye on the others to make sure that no one gets hurt.
Melody plunged her feet down to the sandstone flooring of the massive bridge, sliding slightly forwards as she drew a light blue arrow from seemingly nowhere and loaded it into a colourful, transparent long bow that had many parts of it unattached but STILL acted as one object. Quickly, she pulled the arrow back on a fine, angel-like string and fired it without hesitation, emitting a calming sound of chimes that caused my eyes to widen as I sliced another bullet that would've burrowed itself into my abdomen without mercy.
The arrow perfectly hit the middle of the Gatling guns and dug itself entirely INTO the machine before blue electrical lights surrounded the opened chest of the robot, deactivating the guns to my relief as I hacked and slashed the remaining bullets with a pleased smile across my face. Next up, was Nova who used her magic to send a missile of light purple, concentrated lightning into the wound of the robot, instantly causing the ENTIRE robot to enter an epileptic-like state, shaking crazily which made it unable to maintain its grip on the light purple hatchet.
The sharp, demonic side of the hatchet plummeted deeply into the edge of the sandstone bridge, causing an explosion of cracks to emerge at the site, ranging to at least three meters long. Good. Now it's completely vulnerable! The inventor isn't so advanced as I thought they were! Haha!
"White! Hit the back of it's knees!", I commanded her at the top of my lung before I quickly rushed up towards them with lightning speed, holding tightly onto my blade as I watched White sneak past it's legs and strike the back of it with her blade twice. The robot squeaked and moaned metallically in pain as it fell down to its knees, crushing the flat sandstone bricks with it's brass, circular ball knees and emitting one hell of a loud crunching sound. The ground shook very lightly, but was more than enough to send a few chills down my spine.
"Shine!
Nail and hammer!", I exclaimed, slashing the air once more as I smiled and watched the girl with the golden hair painfully launch herself high up into the air a whopping TWENTY FIVE meters up, holding tightly onto her golden, shiny rod with both of her hands right before it shone brightly again. I was blinded only momentarily, a brief two second before a bright red invaded my eyesight followed with an amazing explosion of colour. Red, blue, green, absolutely everything! I took a blind step back, gritting my teeth to battle the distortion before it suddenly disappeared into nothing, returning my eyesight back...
My eyes widened and an even more larger, uncanny smile crept up my white face as I watched Shine wield her hammer in both of her white, delicate hands tightly from around the golden pole. She held it far behind her back and arched herself into a crescent shape right before instantly swinging it down POINT BLANK onto the Guardian's head, first pulverising it's four horns COMPLETELY into black powder before making contact with the abnormally hard cranium, sending an intense shockwave of power that even shook the very atomic bindings of the metal. If she used that attack on me back then, I wouldn't even be alive right now! She has similar strength to Chaos. Only she's much more cuter and has more troubles.
"Finale!", She exclaimed cheerfully, sending so much force into the robot, that it literally SMASHED its head right into it's torso, emitting one hell of a loud scrunch before suddenly imploding, absorbing all of it's own scrap as if there was a black hole in the core of it and vanished without a trace, leaving absolutely nothing behind... Dammit... That was an enjoyable fight! Team work really pays off!... Hmm... Haha... I feel light headed for some reason. Damn... Every time I recover from a glowing eye I always feel so fatigue... But it's a feeling that I've become so used to...
I blinked blankly, tightly holding onto my blade with my right hand as I smiled very faintly at the five girls who stood proudly on the bridge as I stood right on the line of the bridge. The sun shone brightly from up above us, painting the entire land with life and light... Slowly and hesitantly, I lifted up my right leg weakly and pressed it forwards onto the rough, sandstone bricks that were as solid as steel. At that very moment, my eyes widened to the sweet, powerful sensation of both déjà vu and nostalgia that attacked my heart with poison tipped daggers... I became stiff, unable to move as various images of my friends flooded my mind, all being closely related to that very bridge from a year ago... The bridge we crossed after the forest... And after the confessions... Haha... Those good times...
"Good job Frost!", Nova exclaimed in happiness, instantly making me snap out of my little, warm trance that locked me out of the real world and out of this timeline. I blinked once, raising my left hand up to my face and rubbed my eyes gently, completing the process of recovery before letting it drop back to my side lazily. I took another step forward, then repeated the process naturally, still clutching tightly onto my blade with my right hand, pointing it downwards in font of me as I stared at the girls who all waited patiently for me with cherry red smiles plastered across their faces... Out of all of them, I paid attention to one and only one person... A girl of my age. A girl who's my supposed life rival... A girl of white... I don't know why, but whenever I'm around her or even look at her... Haha, what am I thinking! Stupid brain! Don't embarrass me!
Just as I was two meters away from them, the sound of burning rubber and a roaring engine approached from up ahead, causing everyone to immediate turn around and making me quickly rush the last few meters, standing to the left of White and staring up ahead to witness a military jeep drift abruptly from out of the blue, coming from behind a close, blackened, dead tree as it kicked up many fine particles of dirt into the air, shrouding it in a base of smoke whichever us all unsure of what actions to take...
We all just stood silently like statues as a light breeze carried away the thick haze of dirt... Revealing one hell of a shocking twist that caused EVERY SINGLE one of us to react with a loud "WHAT?!". INCLUDING the three that were inside of that jeep... A girl with golden hair and two girls with pitch black... One with light blue eyes, another with light red and the last with light brown...
Fucking Milk, Chaos and Sino! Most of all, they had a bizarre facial expression and looked rather upset at us for a reason unknown to us... This can't be a coincidence!