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Breaking through the magnetic storm and asteroid field, the Pretty Cures threw back the devastated planet back at the Beur. The projectile launched back twice as deadly with a more vicious magnetic storm and flaming asteroids around it. However, the Beur easily smashed it with a swipe of its expendable dreads. The projectile shattered apart and unleashed debris in all directions, as lightning sparked in a chain for a brief moment. None of the debris got around to the Pretty Cures except for space and the Beur shredding those that came to the Beur.
There, amidst the chaos and the debris levitating around the morphed body, the Beur imposed a fatal threat to star system: the Majesty. Intelligent, powerful, and humongous, the Majesty utilized its surrounding to its chaotic and controlled potential. While not a carrier of malice, the Majesty can bring malice into its use. Furthermore, the Majesty's glyphs of malice were unique in that it consumed to grow in power, rather than infecting.
Headless but a spine protruding out from the neck, a sophisticated formation of hardened nerves glowed and swayed about aimlessly. The tips lighting up like a bulb and controlling a swarm around its neck, like fireflies moving in a swarm through the gaps. The torso had a thin, pale flesh taut to the spine and ribs of the bones. While lacking parts or organs, the nerves extended out from within and below the hollowed ribs with another formation. The nerves bunched up to create what looked like hives and platforms of 'ammunitions'. 'Ammunitions' consisting of several hazardous elemental magic with a flick of the Majesty's dreads cascading around the neck. The dreads were extremely dangerous to touch and were the primary functions of the Majesty's entire defence and offense melee-to-ranged attacks. Lastly, the consistently morphing chitin armour that swelled and exploded all over its form provided another defensive and offensive armour.
"A Majesty type. It's not joking around." Cure Black said, sweeping a hand across the belt and spraying a spark of nullification on the both of them.
Cure White sighed in relief as the storm that have thrashed and left them shocked in their bodies were removed.
"We should avoid a battle of attrition. I think it had wanted us spent from the previous encounter." Cure White stated, drawing a symbol of magic with instant flicks and waves of her hands.
"I don't think it's a good time to draw symbols." Cure Black gave a side-glance at Cure White as the Majesty fired a barrage of magic.
Cure White smirked, "Not from this range. Throw me towards it while you follow my back." She stated without a hint of reluctance
Cure Black huffed and proceeded as suggested, "You're unbelievable."
The two shared a brief smile, and then went into their positions. With Cure White establishing a magic circle beneath her feet, Cure Black hovered behind it by the edge. Cure Black placed her palms before the circle's edge, as if grabbing a board of the flat magic circle that continuously drew more circles within its circle. Cure White stayed rooted to the magic circle as she cast her 'ammunitions' on it. The Majesty's own barrage was approaching right at them in a matter of seconds.
Cure Black emitted a pair of purple's flames upon her hands, and then she immediately reeled her hands up, launching the circle along with Cure White towards the Majesty and barrage of missiles. Cure Black followed closely behind Cure White as the circle fired back at the waves of missiles curving towards them. Most of the barrage went past around and behind them, but some of it were directly controlled by the Majesty. Yet, none could hit them as Cure White fired back at the projectiles whilst casting more spells in her circle.
Meanwhile, Cure Black analysed the Majesty for the possible location of the glyphs of malice. It was harder when so many energy around them blocked most of Cure Black's senses. They had to be a lot closer and risk less ammunitions as Cure White repelled the curved projectiles at them. Oddly enough, it was exposed along the Majesty's base of the spine. It would have been easy were it not for the mutating, exploding chitin armour that could shred either of them should they touch it, and a lot of magic to puncture into it – if it was possible.
"It's in the spine!" Cure Black shouted over the explosions and howls of repelled projectiles.
Cure White stopped casting and suddenly spread out her arms, expanding the magic circle as it released beams of light outwards around her. Sheathed in the pillars of light, Cure Black was pulled into it from Cure White's hand. Now that both Pretty Cures were inside the light, forming into a cylindrical shield around them, the Majesty unleashed all of its 'ammunitions' at the Pretty Cures endlessly. The barrier protecting them shook as it took the blows from many energy beams, waves, missiles, and bombs all the while absorbing them as it cracked.
"Cure Black, can you do something about the chitin?" Cure White asked, as the two of them stayed calm while the barrier was halfway cracked from the endless barrage.
Cure Black shook her head and replied, "Not when it's the source of its power and generating all the projectiles."
Cure White frowned and looked from top-to-bottom of the Majesty's form. The nerves were alive and seemed to be the 'workers' of the entire function. Cure White could do something to interrupt the top part of the Majesty and figure out what the swarm were doing. The chitin must come from somewhere and causing the Majesty to continuously gather and grow in malice.
"The back maybe? I could sweep around and check out anything that wasn't in our sights." Cure Black suggested, tapping her fist together to conjure a pair of energised bladed-tonfas in her hands.
"Please do, and especially look for reactions to its circulation or circulatory of the nerves." Cure White said, summoning two totems beside her with a snap of her fingers.
"Roger." Cure Black replied, flourishing her bladed-tonfas as she prepared to zip out of their barrier.
The barrier broke and unleashed a powerful wave of repelling force, dissolving the incoming projectiles into particles. Both Pretty Cures divide and conquer the Majesty top and back. Cure White flew towards the swarm and bundle of swaying nerves, whilst the totems revolving around her divided into twenty separate sections. The twenty heads swiftly travelled to-and-fro all around the tops of the Majesty, deflecting the dreads and endless projectiles aimed at her. Cure White still had to move about even as her drones protected her as she examined the swarm flying about the nerves.
Meanwhile, Cure Black approached towards the hives and platforms to lessen the barrage going at them. The energised bladed-tonfas cleanly dissolved the projectiles with quick cuts as Cure Black dashed towards the location. However, Cure Black was met with heavy resistance as the dreads interjected and projectiles slowing her down. While fast, no progress was made, until a few of Cure White's totems helped Cure Black. The battle stretched out into a chaotic array of lights and blood-pumping speed of control, fighting without reserve or restraint.
The Majesty caught on what the Pretty Cures were trying to do and dissuaded Cure Black to see its back. With a sheer explosive blast at the hives and platforms, Cure Black was met with a strong static field that shocked and slowed her down. At the same time, the swarm have altered their paths to fly around the dreads and enhancing the speed of its attacks. Cure White dodged as best as she could, but she was taking severe cuts if she remained close; forcing her to retreat as she blasted at the Majesty with ranged attacks.
The retreat was not successful, as she flew back into one of the sweeping dreads behind her and propelled her towards the Majesty, getting caught into the thrust of its dread. Cure White avoided it as she summoned two totems to ram her from the side. Taking the crushing blow and successful avoiding the piercing spike of dreads, the totems took the damage instead. Cure White quickly clapped her hands and bound the dreads from the totem's dispersed particles. It did not work as the dreads tore it apart and pressured Cure White with little room to attack.
As the dreads were fully focused on Cure White, Cure Black was frustrated of the sluggish movement from the shock field. The ball of electricity continued to thrash inside Cure Black's body as well as slowing her and the assisting totems down. The projectiles fired from the hives and platforms were focused onto Cure Black and the totems aiding her. One by one the totems were overwhelmed in the number projectiles they have been trying to repel. Cure Black needed to move now or else she would be overwhelmed.
Cure Black decided to retreat and help Cure White, opting to go over the Majesty instead. Although, the hives and platforms remained intact, the projectiles fired there were slower due to the field of shock preventing Cure Black from moving faster. The totems helped Cure Black out of the field at the cost of their destruction. Each particles spreading out to weaken the projectiles as Cure Black zipped out of the field and taking the hits.
Once Cure Black was out of the field, she quickly assisted Cure White of the dreads that were moving at blinding speeds. Slashing the dreads Cure Black managed to hit, a black energy shot across it and slightly slowed it down giving the Pretty Cures a breather. At this moment, Cure White immediately summoned eight totems to her side and conjured an eight-headed whip. Whipping around with blunt and concussive strikes to the dreads and projectiles turning towards them, Cure White cleared the field around her and lashed out upwards to open a zone.
"Go!" Cure White called out.
"Thanks!" Cure Black zipped towards the opening and flew over the Majesty whilst shooting waves of energy towards the hives and platforms.
The hives and platforms were took a few damage and turned their aim inaccurate. More breathing space for the Pretty Cures, until the effects on the dreads wore off for Cure White to handle. The Majesty went into alert and shifted its position to dive down and turn its body. Cure Black narrowly avoided the dreads as she was closer to the body and cut down one the nerves from the head. The Majesty staggered for a moment and had the swarm reeling back to the head, forcing Cure Black to immediately get away before they get to her.
Cure White guided the remaining totems into formation and had them bound the Majesty in place. Cure White succeeded, but she must now defend herself and the seven totems from the dreads and projectiles with just her whip. Undeterred by the sheer numbers directed at Cure White, she gracefully danced around the projectiles and dreads as she lashed her whip around like a ballerina. The whip hit hard and smoothly connected to anything around Cure White, causing the dreads or projectiles to hit one another instead.
As the Majesty took the blow and began to dive downwards, Cure Black quickly bound it by the spine and froze it in place. The swarm detected this and zipped down along the spine and then towards the chain that Cure Black was holding. Simultaneously, the chitin was gathered along the swarm's clutches and brought it towards Cure Black. Cure Black's eyes widened as the chitin swelled and exploded to multiply, and the swarm heading towards her forced her to unbind the Majesty. The Majesty escaped and gained its distance from the Pretty Cures.
Cure Black faced a swarm carrying thin, sharp chitin plates flying at her, and she refused to have any parts of her dismembered as she zipped away from it. Cure White glanced at the action on Cure Black, and caught on the quick nod as Cure Black zigzagged evasively from the swarm. Taking the risk that the Majesty was without the swarm and probably any regenerating chitin within it, Cure White barrelled towards it with a spiral dive.
The whip formed a spiral behind Cure White, like a drill that bounced of the dreads and projectiles away from her. The Majesty realigned its angle and position swiftly, launching off the shock field at its hives and platforms. But, as they were damaged a little from Cure Black's ranged attacks, the shock field travelled fast yet weakly. Cure White decided made use of the shock field and curled into a ball, rolling into the shock field.
Right as the ball of shock field touched Cure White, its current was magnetised towards her and rolling at a faster velocity. The ball of lighting and the white saw formed from the whip, travelled back at the Majesty and decimated anything that touched it, except the dreads that bounced off it. The Majesty ceased its ranged attack and pulled the hives and platforms into the hollowed section of its ribs. The Majesty was transforming and dodged Cure White's ball by bouncing away with its dreads smacking at the ball. Cure White pursued the Majesty with a thrust of her whip at it and sent the ball of shock field rolling along the line.
Suddenly, the Majesty lashed out its dread like a saw and spun through the ball, destroying it. Cure White dashed to the side as she let go of the whip. The whip was now in the Majesty possession strung around the spine and using its attachment to whip at Cure White the moment she dodged. Cure White took a crushing blow to the stomach and sent flying into the swarm. The swarm immediately zipped away and turned its attention to Cure White.
Cure Black saw the swarm heading for Cure White and immediately pummelled her fist downward in empty space. The bladed-tonfa in her hand disappeared and reappeared above Cure White and knocked her downwards. Cure White was launched downwards and knocked out by the impact, but avoided the swarm from dismembering her into pieces. Cure Black spun and conjured a black, stormy tornado in space towards the Majesty and its returning swarm. The devastating tornado accelerated as Cure Black mightily roared, colouring the black energy with purple lightning.
Casting the tornado towards the Majesty just as the swarm returned to its former, the Majesty transformed again and cut the tornado with a single dread. At the same time, Cure Black rushed to Cure White and pulled them to the side, avoiding the wide vertical slice of a dread.
"Cure White! Wake up!" Cure Black yelled, holding Cure White in her arms, groaning awake as the daze resided.
Cure White slapped her cheeks and gritted her teeth, quickly diminishing the tempting slumber trying to take her. Brown-eyes gazed at her in the heat of the battle, and she smiled assuredly with a pat to Cure Black's hand.
"Thank you." Cure White said, and the two of them smiled and faced their opponent.
"The swarm is without a doubt circulating the main body, but as a separate entity." Cure Black swept a hand across, releasing a torrent of purple bubbles frothing the Majesty in bubbles and slowing it down tremendously.
"It was less efficient without them. I have its spine bound however." Cure White glanced at the whip tied around the spine still 'possessed' by the Majesty.
"Lead on." Curer Black said.
Cure White crossed her arms in front of her with palms opened, facing the Majesty. Slowly, Cure White closed her fingers in like a paw and stretched her arms open. The whip in the Majesty's possession suddenly split and filled the body with lines, as if wrapped in thin fibre wires. The nerves were left alone, and before the Majesty could react or if they could wrapped in bubbles, Cure White placed her paws together. The wires dig into the body and tore through the bones. Cure Black snapped her fingers and popped the bubbles, pouring acidic compound unto the Majesty.
The swarm made a beeline away from the melting body, barely allowing time to place the chitin back to its main body. In the event of the acidic melt, the body was gone and the nerves pulled out by the swarm were slightly damaged. The chitin armour was now being reinforced inside the damage nerves. Now the swarm directed its control over the nerves, still capable of attacking with ranged attacks in a wider radius, after completing the transformation.
"We assumed that the malice was located at the spine, but it was the moment when the nerves were reinforced with chitin that the glyphs of malice appeared." Cure White explained.
Cure Black turned to Cure White, "So, we have to wait for it to complete its transformation?"
Cure White shrugged and smiled as she met Cure Black's gaze, "Yes. It should be a while and we can recuperate at this moment. Attacking it now will feed it with more power, and we can set up a barrier with us and it inside to close off the malice gathering towards it."
Cure Black groaned as she hung her head up, sighing as she let out, "Unbelievable." Causing Cure White to amusedly giggle.
Author's afterword:- Cliff-hanger, not very proud of it, but I shouldn't worry about unless it was premature. It's a bias viewpoint when I think that it's not premature with the way I ended this chapter, but it will be obvious if I stupidly skipped the conclusion of the battle prior to this chapter, which I won't do.
Originally it was a one chapter fight against the Majesty, but I looked back at the previous fights and realise how weak the enemy itself was. Personally, I'm not a fan of fights that escalated for three episodes long, like three-to-one of that segment is enough. Further than that spoiled my attention to go on with it. In the case of this medium with reading words, I feel that it's much shorter…? Like, I love writing action themes and stuff, but in a word format, it takes its toll on the mind on the story's pacing and progression within that segment.
I'll have to look into how you guys feel about action and cliff-hangers based on your opinions. As always, I really do appreciate your reviews and saw your enjoyment in the comments, even though I look at rarely or not at all. Oh! I don't remember if I had said this before, but I will do an M-rated one-shot side fic of the pairing… if I ever remember it. (._.)
I hope you enjoy what you read at your own will, within reason and respect. Thank you for reading (o_o)b