Death by Aptonoth
Chapter 17
The battle for Tanzia part 8: Fall
The Deviljho stood on top of the pile of rubble that used to be a city. There was still some of it standing but the majority had been wiped out in the fight.
The only thing left to do would be to kill all the survivors and the city would the Deviljho's.
The Deviljho let out a mighty roar, challenging those still alive to come and fight it, throwing their lives away for a cause abandoned by all those who fled.
The call was answered.
A Yian Kut-Ku jumped up. "It's I, the legendary Kuu!" The Deviljho stared at it.
The Deviljho shot dragon breath. The Kut-Ku jumped out of the way.
"Fool! I can mimic any attack I see!" The Kut-Ku opened its mouth, all that came out was fire which hit the floor and went out "That worked better in my head." The Deviljho slammed into the Kut-Ku, knocking it backwards.
The Kut-Ku flew upwards. "Hacks! I call hacks! Screw this! I'm out of here!" The Kut-Ku flew out of sight.
While the Deviljho was distracted with ranting about how everyone in the city was Dragon Ball themed and no-one was original Ben jumped and hit it with a jump attack.
The Deviljho toppled over. Everyone else jumped out and started hitting the Deviljho with all the attacks the had in their arsenal, but it was not enough.
Eventually the Deviljho came to its senses and stood up.
It swung its tail wide hitting most of the claptrappers except for Riko.
The Deviljho feigned right. Riko Dodged left. The Deviljho used this opportunity to catch Riko with its teeth.
Riko was impaled on the teeth and went limp. "RIKO!" Yelled Zach.
A spurt of blood came from the Deviljho's mouth. Riko pulled himself off the tooth.
He pulled out his sword and stabbed the Deviljho's tongue. Riko then held the Deviljho's mouth open and yelled "What the hell are you waiting for? ATTACK IT!"
Anthony reacted first "Got it!" He replied, before running forward and leading the counter-attack.
Furiously the Deviljho charged up dragon breath. Riko slanted his sword and it deflected the dragon breath out the back of the Deviljho's throat.
Riko then jumped backwards and soared down the belly of the beast. "What the hell?" Anthony exclaimed, before way too many cuts appeared everywhere on the Deviljho.
Suddenly Riko jumped out of one of the cuts, holding the Deviljho's heart.
With almost super-human strength he crushed it.
A fountain of blood erupted from the Deviljho as it fell to pieces. Riko stood up and walked back to attacking the Deviljho.
The Deviljho attempted to recover even while being hit by a constant onslaught of attacks.
It looked around for a chance of survival. It saw Riko. "If I can just take out him, then I might win."
The Deviljho swung its half-destroyed tail. Riko blocked and the tail was smashed to pieces.
"Ha! Another monster already tried an attack like that on me! You'll need a better strategy to catch me off guard!"
The Deviljho chomped at him but Riko dodged.
Riko seized the opportunity to attack but the Deviljho was prepared, it grabbed him with its foot and pinned him to the ground.
Joseph had flashbacks of Daimyo being eaten… "NO!" He yelled, charging forward.
The Deviljho stepped around a sword swing and headbutted him, sending him flying into a building.
The Deviljho surrounded itself in dragon breath. There was ripping and crunching sounds.
Sean was the first to attack. The bullet disintegrated in the dragon breath. The Deviljho simply couldn't be hit without some sort of sacrifice.
Eventually the Deviljho's red eyes appeared through the cloud of dragon breath. An charred, broken body was thrown out. No-one focused on though; they were too busy focusing on the Deviljho that might be about to eat them.
The Deviljho charged forward and yelled "I'll kill the weakest of you first! Who do you elect?" Ben pushed Callum forward.
Callum was chased by the Deviljho while riding on Sanchez. The Deviljho roared. The Deviljho dived forward. Callum turned left. The Deviljho crashed through the buildings.
Eventually the Deviljho chased Callum to a circular arena. The Deviljho charged forward.
Ben jumped down and chopped the Deviljho's head off! Ben swung his switch-axe around to face the Deviljho.
Zappy jumped down, being ridden by Zach, Zappy's sponge made him bounce off while Zach held by stabbing his Gunlance through the scales.
He then loaded in a Wyvern fire. It burned a hole through the Deviljho's stomach.
The Deviljho roared in pain and hit everyone in the arena with a tail swing.
It roared and saw Sean firing at it. It charged forward, breathing dragon breath in front of it as it ran.
It crashed into the tower and sent Sean flying over it along with the debris.
The Deviljho saw Anthony and Alexandra running towards it.
The Deviljho pinned Anthony's Lagiacrus to the wall. The Lagiacrus tried to bite the Deviljho so the Deviljho moved it along the wall, sending bricks everywhere.
Anthony jumped up and attempted to hit the Deviljho, the Deviljho swung the Lagiacrus round and threw it at Anthony.
Alexandra ran at the Deviljho, it chomped at her. She jumped over.
Alexandra stabbed downwards. The Deviljho used dragon breath. Alexandra blocked.
Alicia's pink Rathian hit the Deviljho with poison. In response the Deviljho roared and jumped at the Rathian. She flew backwards. The Deviljho narrowly missed.
Alicia rapid-fired bullets, they hit the Deviljho in the face.
The Deviljho shot dragon breath at the Rathian. She flew around it. The Rathian hit the Deviljho with her claws.
It was nearly knocked over. Alicia hit it with a fire bullet. It nearly fell over. Alexandra slammed into it and sent it flying backwards.
The Deviljho its tail and it crashed into the nearest building.
The building just about managed to not collapse. The Deviljho stood up.
"What'll it take to kill this thing?" Yelled Alexandra. "I don't know! All we can do is hold it off for now." She grinned "Sean will probably find out a way to kill this thing quicker. He's amazing like that." The three of them charged forward.
Sean slowly got up off of the ground. He saw the battle raging on, distantly.
He surveyed his surroundings. He saw the tower the Deviljho had crashed into well, what remained of it anyway.
There was a broken dragonator and a broken destructor (the plot convenience weapon... no the other one… no? Oh you know what it is!)
Sean surveyed how destroyed they both were. The drill on the dragonator had been destroyed and some of the wires to activate it had been destroyed on the destructor. (Maybe I should've called it Trogdor, I nearly spell it like that everytime. Imagine that: Trogdor was a dragon, then he was a dragon space laser, then he was… just a space laser. But he was still TROGDOR! I really should've called it that. DAMN YOU HINDSIGHT! Also space lasers, because regular lasers aren't cool enough. ENOUGH FOURTH WALL BREAKING MID-STORYTELLING I HAVE ACTION SCENES TO MAKE SERIOUS!)
Sean thought "This is a great desert build. The parts in a dragonator are remarkably similar to that of a destructors. It just happens that there are parts besides that, making them difficult to find. I could transfer the broken parts from the Dragonator to the Destructor. But if I get this wrong, it will self-destruct from the state its in."
The Deviljho swung its tail. The Rathian flew downwards, not flying upwards so the Deviljho would lose focus and move on to easier prey.
The three of them were backed into a corner, too tall for the Deviljho to fit into and just enough room for the pink Rathian.
There was no way out by going up and the only way out on the ground was past the Deviljho.
The Deviljho was about to fire dragon breath.
Joseph jumped down from out of the window and slashed at the Deviljho's face, making it flinch. He looked at Alicia and Alexandra. "Ladies." he said before being tail slammed in the face.
Ben jumped down after him "Hey if you wanna do that all day then we'll just leave you in peace."
Ben landed on the ground and waited, as if expecting something "What? It was a serious question!"
Zach jumped onto the Deviljho "A serious question that we don't have to answer." He used wyvern fire and the Deviljho's spine burned.
He landed next to Ben. Ben sighed "That is a disappointment," he pointed to Joseph "Just like you." "Oh yeah that really is a way to treat someone who just got tail slammed into a wall and probably broke more than ten bones!" yelled Joseph in reply.
Callum jumped down as well. "Also I am here." Zach pointed to Callum "Ok then, new example for disappointment right here." "Why do you guys always insult me?" "BECAUSE JOSEPH ISN'T AROUND ENOUGH!" Ben and Zach yelled in unison.
Alexandra interrupted. "In case you haven't noticed there's a Deviljho!" "Oh yeah that." said Ben, not caring in the slightest. "So are you going to do something about it?" "Nope, our monsters will though."
Ben's Plesioth, Zappy and Sanchez all landed on the Deviljho and started attacking it.
"Wow I'm so thankful for our monsters." said Zach. "They are so useful to us!" said Callum. "I would never let my monster get killed by a Deviljho because of my mistakes and weird obsession over a girl who I can't trust and has attempted to kill me several times in one day." Said Ben "Haha… screw you guys." said Joseph, bitterly.
Anthony stood up as his Lagiacrus slowly regained consciousness. He looked around to see where the Deviljho was. He couldn't see it.
You'd think a giant ****ing T-rex pickle would be easy to spot but no! It's as hard to spot as a Chameleos which doesn't want to be found when you have no smoke-bombs!
He looked around to figure out where it was. If only there was some sort of beacon to tell him where it was.
He saw a tail demolishing buildings surrounding it revealing a Deviljho. It shot dragon breath into the air.
"That works too." He muttered under his breath. Anthony got his Lagiacrus' attention and began to run towards the Deviljho.
Sean used his hunting knife to remove one of the wires. He carefully angled around the parts he didn't need.
A hammer slammed into the side of the Deviljho's head. It roared in pain. "Get hammered!" Yelled Anthony.
A huge grin appeared across Joseph's face. Anthony saw him and yelled "If you make any jokes about that I will maim you!"
Anthony's Lagiacrus jumped upwards towards the Deviljho and Anthony leaped backwards.
The Lagiacrus sank its teeth into the Deviljho's stomach and made and used the electricity stored in its back.
The Deviljho was electrified. "Ooh, pretty." said Ben. The Lagiacrus detached its fangs and landed on the ground.
The Deviljho did the same thing, just not as gracefully. The Deviljho crashed to the ground.
While the Deviljho was unconscious Sean yelled "Distract it so I can finish it off." "It looks pretty dead already." replied Callum. "In fact it's so dead, imma poke its face with a stick.
Callum began to poke the Deviljho's face with a stick. Nothing happened. "See! It's dead!"
The Deviljho stood up. "Or alive." Said Sean. "It could just be dead-walking." replied Callum. "That's not real." "Well then. It appears that I am about to be attacked by an angry Deviljho. I could attempt to dodge but I'm not going to in order to make our reasons for killing this Deviljho more justified." The Deviljho hit him with its tail and he went spiralling into the air. "REMEMBER ME AS A HERO!" Callum yelled.
They all watched Callum crash into a building. "That was so beautiful." muttered Zach, wiping a tear from his eye.
"So anyway. Distract the 'jho; as a bonus try not to die in the process." stated Sean.
They all charged forward. Except Callum. He jumped downwards, yelled "NOT DEAD!" The Deviljho swung its tail. Before it hit Callum he said "Maybe dead." and got flung into a different building. The cycle continued until Callum used the stairs, by falling down them and hitting every stair with his head. Because he's smart like that.
Anthony swung his hammer in a circle, hitting Zach into the air. "You'll thank me later!" He yelled before Zach got a chance to make the air as blue as the sea surrounding it. "I'll never thank you!"
Zach landed perfectly on the Deviljho's back. "Actually I will thank you. THANK YOU!" Zach fired bullets and stabbed the Deviljho. To finish he used a wyvern's fire. The Deviljho roared in pain. "Hey! You should be thanking me! I'm burning off the calories for you!" The Deviljho fell over.
Zach landed on the ground. Ben ran up to him. "Zach… we really need to talk about your lines in the middle of battle. You know that bar we set for bad lines and how all cool lines are better than that line. You didn't go over that, you didn't hit it. You went straight under it, and then... smacked your face on the floor." "Well I thought it was pretty good." replied Zach. "Yes well…" "Even Callum could do better than that!" Interrupted Joseph. "Even Joseph can do better than that!" continued Ben.
Joseph was very offended by this and began screaming while flailing his arms wildly. Then suddenly he turned to the Deviljho and began sprinting towards it.
The Deviljho had seen this a fighting style a fair few times now and stepped to the right. However Joseph swung from the left and caught it off guard. "The hell!?" thought the Deviljho.
Ben laughed. "This was my plan from the start! When insulted, Joseph is no longer capable of rational thought! He's fighting without reason, so he's unreadable. It's like the drunken fist didn't have any alcohol!"
He collapsed. "Set your rage free... Gohan." "SINCE WHEN WERE YOU DYING!?" yelled Alexandra. Zach shrugged and replied "Since plot."
The Deviljho swung with it's tail. "This is bad!" said Ben. "He probably won't remember to dodge!"
Suddenly, Joseph dodged. Ben was surprised.
"Like I'd get angry over something as stupid as that…" Joseph thought to himself. He looked to the Deviljho. "Today was… all my fault. You're just another mistake I have to erase. I don't care about my life, but I won't let it end until you're dead!"
Joseph continued fighting like this while everyone rested. The Deviljho showed a slight opening and Joseph rushed forward. Suddenly he was knocked over by its tail. The Deviljho stepped on his stomach. Joseph yelled in pain. The Deviljho went in to try and bite him.
Joseph didn't try and fight back. "Heh… Looks like it's the end. Still, I'll try to guarantee your death, bastard. I have barrel bombs strapped to my chest. The moment you eat me they'll go off.
Everyone rushed forward to try and help him, but the Deviljho used dragon breath to stall them."
Joseph looked over to them and started to speak. "Zach, Ben, Callum… Looks like I couldn't keep my end of the promise…" He looked at the Deviljho slowly moving closer.
"Daimyo… Looks like… I'll be meeting you sooner than I would've hoped..."
Suddenly a great sword hit the Deviljho in its eyes.
"THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, IDIOT!?" Yelled Riko. "NO-ONE ELSE APART FROM THIS THING IS DYING HERE, GOT IT!?"
"WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?" Screamed the Deviljho, stumbling back.
Sean grinned. It was ready.
"Hey guys!" He yelled "Hold it off for a few more seconds!"
Joseph leaped up and got the barrel bombs from his chest. "Looks like I won't need these anymore." He inserted them into the Deviljho's eye sockets. He landed and threw a rock at them.
There was a bang, and the Deviljho was stunned. Everyone rushed forward and began attacking.
Alicia saw Sean running, carrying the weapon. Her eyes widened. "Sean!? STOP!" He looked like he intended on dying. He was carrying a weapon that would kill him, after all.
Sean kept running, grinning.
"MAKE AN OPENING" He yelled.
Joseph slit a hole on the Deviljho's stomach. "Azure!" Sean yelled as his Rathalos picked him off the ground. He stuck his weapon in the hole. It started to heal. The Deviljho started shaking around, almost knocking Sean off. He still held on.
While this was happening, his life force was draining away. Alicia hopped on her Rathian to try and stop him.
Suddenly Sean let go.
He fell to the ground. He looked up and continued grinning.
Alicia landed next to him. She started shaking him. "Sean!" She yelled. "Stop yelling… Everything's fine now." Sean replied, weakly.
The Deviljho looked victorious. "And there goes your only chance of victory! Have fun wherever you go next!"
Everyone braced for impact.
Suddenly, the Deviljho collapsed.
It looked much weaker.
"What… The hell… DID YOU DO!?" It started charging at them.
Joseph cut at its legs and made it fall again. "It's simple."
"We killed you."
Suddenly a laser shot out of the Deviljho's back, withering it to a corpse.
Joseph turned around and looked at what had happened; then he fell to the ground and passed out.
Everyone else followed suit.
It was over.
They had won.
Just.
TO BE CONCLUDED