Me: Welcome back, guys! We're back here, on, what chapter are we on again?
Aisha: Chapter 7?
Me: This... Chapter...
Aisha: Close enough.
Me: And today, the Elgang is on their way to beating the crap outta Ran, with Xen hyped for it more! But Ara doesn't trust this. On to the story! :D Btw, I got a new OC request from "The Great Crossover War", I'm going to read the information and throw it right in. 2 more OC requests and I can throw the OC's in. Hopefully we can get the OC's in the fanfic before I finish it.
Solar Silvermoon (Crimson HellFlame), 17
Me: Although, what bugged me, was that this guy had Hellfire, same thing Xen has, but stronger. Oh well, I asked for some OC's, this is what I got. Beggars can't be choosers, Amirite? Thanks for your request, The Great Crossover War. (AlthoughthefactyourOCusesHellfirelikemyOCreallyirritatesme/falconpawnched)
Xen's POV
"...What?! Crazy shit's happening on my birthday?! And what's it supposed to mean when it says '4 will Separate, 4 will be gravely injured, 1 will fall'?! Who's dying?! I can't handle these questions!" I complain after Elesis told me what she heard from the Shadow Master. "I don't know! Ask the guy himself, he should know!" We bicker on our way back to Hamel from the Heart of the Ancient Waterway. When we arrive, Raven says "Alright guys, first things first; plans.". I stopped listening at 'Alright guys,'. But I couldn't help it.
I can't stop thinking about what Victor said about killing Ran to revive someone you want for a half an hour worth of Raven and the others planning, until he snapped his fingers a few times, throwing me back in to reality. "Xen. You remember where Magmanta's Cave is?" He asks and I nod. "Yeah. It's entrance is at a forest. I cleared out demons and Spider-Crabs, but I couldn't beat up Magmanta for... reasons." I reply.
"Because you're afraid of spiders." Elesis commented. It wasn't a thought, it was a fact. She knows me better than anyone else other than me.
"Err... Yeah... anyways, I came across some occasional breaking chunks of the cave, like falling stones, so watch out for 'em." I note.
"Thanks. Alright! To Magmanta's Cave, then!" Elsword says excitedly. We all head South to Magmanta's Cave, prepared to beat up the enormous Spider-Crab named Magmanta. I realized the word "Magmanta" seemed familiar to me, now that I think about it. A flashback whizzed into my view.
-=12 Years Ago (Xen at Age 9.) (3rd Person POV)=-
"Aera, check out this cool Spider-Crab thing I found by the river bank!" Xen calls for a girl with a tiny white and lightblue crab with eight legs and six eyes and a claw-like mouth in hands. A young girl, same age and height as Xen, with long blonde hair, pale & smooth skin, and sky-blue eyes runs up to Xen to see what it is. The 'Spider-Crab' baby cradled in Xen's hands.
It was the middle of winter and Xen wore only a Scarf and a singular gloves, nothing else. The girl, assumably Aera, wore a thick jacket, a scarf, and thick gloves. "Wow! It looks cute!" Aera comments. "I just want to cuddle it!". Xen laughed. "Ha, you think we should keep him as a pet?"
"Sure!"
"Alright, what you want to call him? *Craber Clawker? Mr. Zpiders?"
"No, those are silly names, Xen~! We should find out what species it's from, then name it!"
"Aw, man! Means we gotta read stuff!" Xen complained while Aera giggled. They leave the riverbank that Xen found the Spider-Crab at, and towards the village Rosso, Firossel (Fy-RAWS- il), named after the El Master of Fire, Rosso, and putting the words Fire, Rosso, and El together. Xen and Aera reach the library.
-=Present (Xen's POV)=-
And the flashback ends. By the time it does, I bump in to the gate entrence of Magmanta's Cave I closed to keep the Magmanta's away, and I fall flat on my ass with an "Oof!". Elesis helps me back up and I stands right back on my feet.
"So, this the place?" She asks.
"Yeah. Get ready for what's behind this door..." I warn. Then, a gloves hand with sharp metal ends on it touches my shoulder and I jump and see who it is. It's Add. "Oh, god damn, Add, why with the shoulder? If I didn't know better I could've shit my pants." I say.
"Allow me to take care of the problem... Heh..." He says ignoring my comment. I step back and allow him to walk up to the gate. He removes the branch and cracks the entrance open and places his arm through it. "Add, what are you doing?" I ask. He ignores me again, and next thing I knew, I heard electrical firing, and multiple zaps followed by Magmanta screeches. He opens the gate and we see hundreds of dead Magmanta's littering the ground. "Conquerer, it fires homing shots and kills enemies. That's your answer." Add says before he walks in. He knew I would ask. The rest of us go in after Add and I lead the way to the bigger Magmanta. After an hour, we reach Magmanta's Cave's 'boss area'. "This is it, Xen?" Raven asks.
"Yeah, but it doesn't seem the big Magmanta's here..." I reply. I turn to the others with a big grin, saying "Guess it's our lucky d-!". I'm interrupted by the same larger Magmanta that I ran from, it falling off the ceiling, and it lands directly on top of me, and I fall to the ground instantly. It's weight plus the impact really effected me. My senses start to blur and my hearing is muffled. I can hear Elesis yell my name and it sounds like she's screaming into a pillow. I get another flashback.
"Eh? What's a Magmanta?" Xen asks.
"They're large scary Spider-Crabs that live in caves." Aera replies.
"Whoa..! Cool!"
Aera clears her throat and motion her index and middle fingers on both hands going up and down while saying, "'LARGE SCARY'"
Xen takes a look at the baby Magmanta. "I'm sure if we raise it right, we can make it an awesome and nice pet that can protect us! I found out just what to name it; Godzilla!" Xen grins stupidly and he earns a playful slap to the shoulder, Aera asking him, "Why 'Godzilla'?"
"Because when it's grown, it's gonna be Big, Scary, and able to destroy stuff!"
Aera sighs, "Fine, Godzilla it is, then." Xen got up holding 'Godzilla' in his hands, whooping loudly, "WOO WE GOT A PET, WOOHOO! IT'S SO AWESOME!". Aera giggled and asked "Why are you so happy 'bout it?"
"Well, how often is it that you get a spider-crab that's super dangerous when grown up as a pet?"
"Heh, guess you're right.."
I start to wake up, but the large Magmanta slams it's sharp leg towards. I manage to roll away, but it gives a wound into my shoulder, no bigger than a melon. I grunt, holding in a scream of pain, surprised how sharp the Magmanta's leg is. I'm knocked back from single strike to my arm of the injured shoulder and it leaves the sleeve torn and a small scar. I get up, holding my arm, "Lightning Buster!" I cough as I slam my leg into the ground, and a geyser of and Electricity erupts from under the Magmanta, launching it backwards.
It walks back towards me, and fireballs, runes, cannonballs, ice balls, Nasod Spears, and purple spheres of electricity fire right at it, aggrovating it on, Elesis, Elsword, Chung, Aisha, Eve, and Add, as it runs to them, ignoring me. Rena runs to me, avoiding the Magmanta, and starts working on the wounds on my shoulder and arm. She cleans the wounds with water out of nowhere, pulls out a bandage wrap and puts it around my arm, and another on my shoulder. She stands and uses Arillenna to heal the wounds.
Raven flies out of nowhere and rams his Nasod Arm right into the Magmanta's body, and it stumbles about, and lands on it's back. Ice flies everywhere, hitting Chung's stomach, Add's leg, Aisha's thigh, and the 3 collapse. My vision starts to blur again, and my hearing becomes muffled, and I faint, with Rena yelling me to wake up and splashing some water in my face, while I hear the others yell my name. The next things happen, while it feels like I'm listening through a pillow and looking through an extremely fogged up window.
"Xen!" I hear Elesis yell as she runs run to me and Rena. Rena moves aside and Elesis shook me by my uninjured shoulder gently, trying to wake me up. "Xen, wake up, already! Don't die on us!" she yells. I see the blur of Magmanta stand right behind Elesis and I turn to see it looking down on Xen, Elesis, and me. "C-Crap!" she says and she vigorously shakes me. My shoulder hit the ground several times and my arm scratching against the ground, and it feels painful. I squeeze my eyes shut and I pop them right back open and I get up, and I jump right up to the Magmanta's face an I give it a good knee in the face, and it tumbles back.
I land and my shoulder and arm hurts, and it feels like it was cut into confetti. I scream and I double over and get on one knee, elbow on the other, my hair hanging down, panting. I get up and run to the Magmanta, saying "I don't care that I'm scared of Spiders, this this is mine to kill!" and give it my strongest punch to it's face with my Right Arm imbued with Hellfire and Lightning, my stronger arm, as well as the wounded arm. I yell again, holding my right arm. "Xen! Don't fight! Your arm is close to being ripped off!" Rena warns me.
"I don't care! I'm killing this thing one way or another, if it brings me closer to bringing Aera back!" I yell and I hold up my right arm. "Hell Cannon!" I shoot a large Hellfire bomb at the Magmanta, and it damages my arm even further.
"Aww... Godzilla died!" Aera pouts to Xen, 4 years after finding the baby Magmanta. Xen stood next to her, with bandages over his right arm. "It was dangerous, Aera. It nearly ripped my arm off. Who knew it grows even more huge after 4 years? I could've died."
"Eh... I guess you're right... Where did we go wrong to raise the Magmanta?"
"We did everything right; It's just that the Magmantai are natural born death-animals. If we raised it more, our village would be gone."
"Fine... Hey, you think we can get a dog? It would be so cool!"
"Yeah, sure. Let's hope it isn't hungry for my arm..." Xen hopes, looking at his arm, all of it being wrapped in bandages.
"How about... Kaji? Yeah, Kaji is a good name!" Aera laughs and Xen smiles. It's so nice to see her smile... Xen thought in his head.
I slug the Magmanta right in the middle of his six eyes with a Hellfire and Electricty imbued arm, Hellfire and Electricity pouring out of the wounds, through the bandages, causing me more pain. I notice Raven looking at me, like he's seeing a Deja Vu. He runs up to me, as well as Elesis, and grabs me by the undamaged shoulder and shirt.
I yell, "Let go of me!" and I struggle to get their hands off me.
"Xen, quit it, you're gonna rip your arm off!" Raven says.
"Stop, you're going to kill youself!" Elesis warns me.
...
"Xen... Promise me not to let yourself get killed if there was a way to avoid it..."
...
"Y-yeah... Yea I p-promise... Aera..."
...
I immediately stop struggling and my body goes limp, and I fall to my knees, facing the ground, panting and holding my right arm. "I... I'm sorry." I apologize. I slowly look up to see the Magmanta on the ground, legs twitching, dead. Raven and Elesis help me up, and I notice the others walking up to me, Chung on Ara's back, holding his Destroyer, and Aisha on Elsword's shoulder. "Eh... Must be Deja Vu for those two." Elesis comments, and Ara nods. My vision starts to blur, and I faint.
Elesis' POV
We exited Magmanta's Cave, and take the route to Frozen Temple. The whole time traveling there, I had to carry Xen on my back, and he was heavier than I thought, even though he was pretty slim, yet mildly masculine. We walked up paths and destroyed a ton of demons on our way. The whole time, it was quiet, because Xen wasn't launching into corny jokes about Ice Hedgehogs being cousins of **Zumek the Hodgepogehog Hedgehog, or the Mana/Health Linkers being too serious with their Monkey Business. When we enter a large area filled with pillars and snow, the whole place starts the get colder and colder, and Xen's body temperature started to get hotter and hotter, eventually causing me to accidentally drop him on the snow-covered ground, which the snow around him starts to melt. A Large skeletal figure with a white coat and a staff appears behind us and disappears, then reappears in front of us and we face him. "I guess we gotta beat him so we can get through?" Elsword asks.
"Yes. If we defeat him, we should be good to go to Halls of Water and defeat Ran." Raven answers. The skeletal figure speaks in a monotone voice, "You will not pass this point! I, Avalanche will defeat you, for the Demon Army shall take of Elrios!" as it slams it's staff in the ground and a large blizzard whips up, and we're being blown back and hail hitting us and scratching us. Then, Xen wakes up, and walks up to Avalanche through the blizzard. "Xen, watch out!" I warn
"Nobody don't got no time for dat!" Xen says as he goes on and attacks Avalanche. "Gates of Hell!" Xen yells as a chained, spiked, and flaming gate falls behind him, and opens, and chains fly out of it, grabbing Avalanche by the hands, staff, and feet, and pulls it in. Xen assists by pulling it in with Lightning and Hellfire chains with his left hand only. After 2 long minutes, the skeleton-like monster is pulled into the Hell Gate, and exploded with Hellfire, ashes flying everywhere. Xen turns to us, and says, "That, my friends, is my Second Strongest Skill."
All of our jaws were dropped so low, you could see them in China, and eyes wide. Xen grins. "Hey, this right arm hurts like hell, but it ain't stopin' me. Let's head to Halls of Water, already."
"No, we need to rest first. It's almost night, and we should get sleep so we have all our energy." Raven says.
"UGGGH, BUT WE'RE SO CLOSE TO BEATING UP RAN AND SAVING HAMEL! I DON'T NEED RE-" He says right before he falls on his face, asleep. We all set camp and we all fall asleep after having conversations on whether who would win in a 1 on 1 on 1 fight; ***White Totalbreaker, Fuyu the Wyvernslayer, or Ulse Red from Demon Tales.
Night passed by, and the next day, everyone woke up, yawning and asking for '5 more minutes'. I get up from my sleepingbag and check on Xen; only for him to not be there. Instead, a note.
Dear Elgang,
I left to Halls of Water to kick Ran's ass. You guys can meet me there later if you want.
Sincerely, Xen.
P.S. to Elesis; I ate your cake that you bought. It was delicious.
* 'Craber Clawker? Mr. Zpiders?' Reference to Peter Parker (As in Spiderman Peter Parker) and Mr. Krabs.
** 'Zumek the Hodgepoghog Hedgehog' Reference to Sonic the Hedgehog
*** 'White Totalbreaker, Fuyu the Wyvernslayer, or Ulse Red from Demon Tales' Reference to Gray Fullbuster, Natsu Dragneel the Dragon Slayer, and Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail.
Me: Yep, that's it guys! 3 References in one chapter, success! :D
Xen: I see no point in that. .-.
Me: Whatevs, man.
Xen: And why did you have to make me like VC?
Me: So you can be more badass. :D
Xen: .-.
Next Time!: the Halls of Water!
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