Chapter 12- Last Duel
In this chapter we witness the last fight between Mikael and Retribution as this shall be the final fight between the two. Be aware that the following tow chapter my be a lot short than the other chapter due to it being mainly from Mikael point of view since there is no other conflict with the other character. Now let begin.
Hunter
Our blade clashed as we found ourselves equal with one another as my plasma blade was having hard time holding back one of his blades while Codebreaker was beginning to slice through his other blades. We both jumped back to gain distance from one another. "Uh it seem you had trick up your sleeve since you are using a physical sword instead of one of those energy sword. But such ashame you only have one while I carry two. Well that doesn't matter I sure that you will to the best of your abilities" he said to me but I refused to reply since I just wanting this fight over and done with once and for all. Yet despite how much I wanted this fight to be over I felt something that I hadn't felt since Sword Art Online and that was the need to become strong to finally show that I could win. Our attack counter and deflected one another while I managed to land a few good blow on yet none of them were fatal while Retribution wasn't having any luck in landing blows on me as I able to move slightly faster due to my plasma blade being much lighter than his blades. "You want to call it quits while you have a chance. I promise you that if you give up now then you will just be arrested and I won't be forced to kill you" I told him trying to reason with to just stop this and not make me a killer as I didn't want to do that.
"Ha like you think I will believe you. I know that you can't kill me since you want to change while I wish to return to the days of Sword Art Online, where people like us were fear. But no you won't allow that will you. Heck I kidnap your girlfriend and yet you still won't kill me" he replied to me. "I know I won't kill you. I have changed from those days and it time you except the fact that those days have passed. Laughing Coffin is nothing more than a memory and we are just fragments of that memory and do you know what happen when we fade" I asked him as he didn't respond. "The memory fades as well and that what I will do. Make the memory of Laughing Coffin fade away. I already have started it by changing my ways and now I will make it fade for good by making you disappear." I told him which seemed to anger him as he then shouted "THAT IT YOU DIE NOW, YOU BASTARD." He then charged at me as I quickly dodged and sliced off his right arm in order to disarm him. He then collapsed to his knees as I then said "You can't win retribution, just give up. I know who you are in the real world and once I get out of here there is no where you can run where I won't find you." "Alright I give up. I know when I have been beaten" he replied. I sigh, glad that this fight was over once and for all. I then noticed that he smirked as he said "But before you take me away, can I tell you the one thing I regret not doing." I was worried that it would be something terrible but then also thought that it might be how didn't change his ways sooner. My curiosity got the better of me as I said "go ahead." I soon regret saying those words as he then told me "My only regret is not having my way with that whore Sinon before I released her after all can you imagine how she would I have losing her virtual virginity to me(Yes I know it lazy to refer to first time sex between avatars as losing to losing virtual virginity but I could think of no other way to refer to it without saying rape)." I soon became angered by that comment as he refer to Sinon as a whore as well as refer to having sex with her.
"You know before I sent this little game up I paid a visit to a friend, I think you know him his name is Shinkawa Kyouji" he said, which only made me even more angry as I remember learning about Shinkawa Kyouji from Sinon and how he destroyed his friendship with Sinon by trying to do something horrible to her. "You know I asked him about Sinon and he went into great detail about his little attempt. I might I say it turned me on so much. Heck when I capture her I was so close to doing it. I still recall the soft feeling of her breast" he told me. I was now at my breaking point as I then shouted "THAT DOES IT. ASCENION: PHOENIX BURST." Suddenly fire surrounded me as my eyes turned blood red and my hair white with a red bang. I then dashed at him as he got up. My sword began to slash at him as my speed and strength had increase to a point where he couldn't see my movement. "Damn I'm surprised you had this power but now I finally I get to see you when your need to kill become so great it blocks out every other thought." he said to me but I ignored him and just threw away my weapons as I then tackled him to the ground and began to batter him to a point where his face was bleeding. My phoenix burst soon came to an end as I came back to my sense. I had my fist held up ready to continue beating him as his health was just two strike away from being completely gone.
He looked at me and said "Go ahead Mikael, kill me. I am ready to embrace my death as I know that there is still a killer in you." I got up and said "No I refuse to take another life." "Well then if you won't kill me then I will just have to kill you" he told me as he then got up and charged towards me with his sword ready to stab me. I saw that my sword were to far behind me to get in time to block him. I immediately then switched to my next option as I then said "Ascension: Time Freeze." Then nothing happened as I then thought 'What the hell why isn't it working.' "Ha it seems your little trick has failed you" he said as he closed the distance between us. Suddenly I saw a figure get in front of me. It wasn't until the blade pieced them that I realised that it was Arita who had broken free of the paralysis and managed to take the blow. Both me and Retribution were shocked at what happened. I quickly regained myself as I then used this opportunity to punch Retribution right in the face throwing him backwards. "THAT IT RETRIBUTION THIS FIGHT IS OVER, YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT IF ONE MORE HIT LANDS ON YOU THEN IT GAME OVER AND YOU BRAIN IS FRIED. JUST STOP THIS" I shouted at him.
He then got up and said "No I refuse, this fight shall end with you dead." He then got up off the ground. Suddenly I heard a voice shout "RETRIBTION YOU HAVE FAILED SO NOW I WILL END YOU AS I CANNOT ALLOW YOU ACTION TO CONTINUE." A figure then appeared behind him as he stood there in shock as a hand then piece through his chest.
End of Chapter 12- now this was interesting to write as I wanted to introduce one of Mikael new ascension abilities but I didn't know how to go about putting it in so this happened. I am aware that I may need to explain his ascensions abilities but I will save that for the end of the story as they play something more important in the next story as the way ascension goes in these stories is Redemption- introducing the ability and giving it to Mikael, Hunter and Prey- New abilities gained and more knowledge of it origin, Ragnorak- Mastering it fully, Accelerated Blade- the last part of it origins as well as it purpose. In the next chapter we wrap up what has happened in GGO as Black Knight return to ALO.