SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 16 out, this is Chapter 17 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny and my OC.
Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny and my OCs.
Chapter 18: The Inherited Cloth! The Birth of Equuleus Subaru!
Underground...
"Selene, how is Celeris?" Koga asked.
"He's still asleep." Selene replied. "What if the Pallasites attack?"
"Don't worry." Eden assured. "We're with you."
"Haruto." Koga turned to the ninja who had just returned. "How does it look like out there?"
"As I thought, moving above ground is risky." Haruto replied. "Hati is still after us."
"That jerk." Subaru fumed. "Let me punch him in the face."
"Subaru, don't let him provoke you." Yuna chided.
"Our strength and our Cloths are approaching their limits." Ryuho agreed. "If possible, we should avoid fighting."
"That's right." Celeris concurred.
"Celeris, we plan to head for Pallas' castle." Koga informed.
"Then take this sewer and it'll lead you right there." Celeris confirmed. "Be careful. The enemy might be waiting for you. But I'm sure you can break your way through."
"Celeris, what will you do?" Eden inquired.
"Sorry, I can't go with you." Celeris gestured to his injuries. "I need to protect the people here."
"Wait a minute." Subaru reminded. "Hati's on the surface waiting for you. If you fight in your current condition, you won't survive."
"Hati's not in much better shape." Celeris pointed out. "And you have an important task ahead. To defeat Pallas."
"Let's make a run for Pallas' castle." Koga urged his team onwards. "What are you doing, Subaru?" he asked, the Steel Saint paused in his tracks.
"Right." Subaru nodded and ran after the others.
Up top...
"Come out, Equuleus Celeris!" Hati snarled, breaking the stone pathway underneath him with his flying daggers. "Come out and settle this with me. Or would you prefer I destroy the underground tunnel and bury you alive?"
In the tunnel...
"Let's go straight here." Koga told his team.
"Subaru?" Eden blinked, he and Haruto turning to see the younger Saint stop.
"I can't leave Celeris behind." Subaru admitted. "If I do, he'll die. I want to help him."
"Subaru, as Saints, our task is to defeat Pallas and save Athena." Koga reminded. "If you insist on saving Celeris, I won't stop you. We'll keep going." he informed the others, sending Subaru back to Celeris. "We've entered an open area." he stopped in his tracks.
"Someone's here." Haruto warned. "Be careful, everyone."
"Hello again, Wolf Haruto, Lady Vesta." Cyllene greeted. "Class-3 Pallasite of the Deathscythe, Soul Killer Cyllene."
"I am Greip." Greip introduced himself.
"Why do we keep running into these idiots?" Vesta moaned.
"The strongest twins among the Pallasite Army will send you to hell." Cyllene swore.
"Let's split up and fight them." Koga suggested. "We'll break through."
"Box, open!" the three Goddess Guardians summoned their Box Weapons.
"Devil Exclusion!" Cyllene released his attack, the souped-up tornado pummeling against the Box Weapons' unison energy barrier.
"That technique is much more powerful than it was before." Haruto realized the three Goddess Guardians biting back a wince at the onslaught.
"Devil Blizzard!" Greip's attack knocked Yuna back.
"Are they playing with us by damaging our Cloths?" Eden wondered.
"You weaken the prey before killing it." Greip taunted. "That's the first rule of hunting."
"Hold it." Subaru snapped, arriving with the Equuleus Cloth Stone. "I have my Cloth right here."
"After it touched Subaru-kun's blood, the Cloth evolved?" Ryuho was shocked as the new born Equuleus Cloth.
Donning on his new Cloth, Subaru met the twins head-on.
"The Deathscythes couldn't touch him?" Greip was shocked when Subaru blocked and dispelled his and Cyllene's energy blades.
"Devil Twin Tempest!" the twins released their combined attack at Subaru.
"Shine, my supernova." Subaru charged up his attack. "Supernova Explosion!"
The massive fireball not only nullified the tornado, it also took out Cyllene and Greip.
"Subaru!" the others ran forward, worried when the Equuleus Cloth left his body left the younger Saint's body and he fell over unconscious.
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