Eighty chapters? Shit, I'm impressed with myself. Can we get maybe... over ten reviews for eighty chapters? I feel that's a fair bargain. Anyways, let me address a few things with you guys before we start today.
I have writers block. I said this in the most recent chapter of Partners, but my update drive right now is rather low. I don't feel like writing, but I force myself to sit and do it so I don't abandon these stories. I may not update a lot for the next maybe, week or so, just until I recover.
Enjoy!
Elise was getting really sick and tired of getting eaten by Tetsu. Now before any of you get the wrong idea, Elise meant her attacks and how he seemed to be starving. Every time she came at him he ate her club or her sword or whatever else she threw at him, and it was getting to the point where Elise's rage was overthrowing her common sense. She was one eaten attack away from punching him in the face without it when he laughed.
"Stop." he said after he was done laughing. "I...fuck, I can't eat anymore!" Elise felt her veins bulge out of her temple.
"Than let me hit you!" She shouted back angrily, and he snickered. "And while I'm at it, stop fucking laughing!"
"But where would the fun be if I stopped?" he asked innocently, his hands behind his back. Elise was ready to slap a bitch.
"This is a fight!" She shouted in exasperation. "You're not supposed to enjoy it!"
"I learned a long time ago fighting isn't fun without making the effort." he replied, crossing his arms as he watched Elise tense up at the motion. "I can tell you don't share that regard, do you?" Elise raised an eyebrow as Tetsu sighed. "To bad, I hoped we could enjoy this."
"I mean..." Elise scratched the back of her head sheepishly. "I get the feeling your own guildmates don't share that regard."
"Well, you got me there." Tetsu said with a smirk. "Pretty and observant? You're the whole package aren't you?" Elise smiled back at him, loosening up a bit. "And although it may not seem like it, it's been a long time since someone was lasted this long in a fight with me. Outside of Devil Advocate, of course."
"Speaking of Devil Advocate." Elise said, "What's your deal? What exactly are you after by attacking us?" Elise watched as Tetsu shrugged indifferently.
"Hell if I know." Tetsu replied. "I don't listen to Master Kronos' rambling, you'd be better off asking Icas. I usually get Azzie to debrief me before I go and do whatever it is we do." Elise nodded and looked around the clearing. Although Tetsu had eaten the majority of her attacks, she had knocked down several trees in the process of attacking. "Of course you could ask Kronos himself, but that'd be suicide."
"How so?"Elise asked.
"I assume you're aware of your own Master's strength?" Tetsu asked, and Elise nodded. She'd have to be retarded not to. "Triple that, and you've got Master Kronos."
"T-triple?"
"Yep." Tetsu sighed. "Although I won't lie, he's a bit of a dick. When Katsuchi and I fucked up attacking your guild..."
"That was you?!" Elise demanded
"Irrelevant." Tetsu replied. "As I was saying, he nearly offed the two of us on the spot. I assume the only reason he didn't was because he spent so much time training us to use our magic." Elise nodded in understanding, or at least tried too. She couldn't fathom her own Master threatening her, Gramps was far to kind to even understand.
"Even so," Elise replied, staring at the ground. "Killing you both? Does he threaten that often?" The hollow laugh that came out of Tetsu gave Elise shivers.
"Threaten?" he asked. "Our newest member, Maya, was added after he offed our last member. Poor, poor David..." Tetsu sighed. "Anyway, you want to keep fighting, or...?" Elise chuckled.
"I'm not sure that I can beat you." Elise replied. "But If I do, now that I know what'll happen, I won't even feel good about it." Tetsu nodded, and Elise watched as his body coated in black, shiny scales.
"Even so." Tetsu replied. "I'm not afraid of Kronos right now, but if Taisho catches me messing around/.." Tetsu growled. "Yeah, fuck that. Sorry Elise, but this has to happen." Elise didn't know who this Taisho was, but apparently he was bad news. Before she could ask him another question, Tetsu rushed her with his arm turning into what looked like her iron club. Elise turned her body into iron before he reached her, and smiled in satisfaction as her scales deflected the blow.
"Nice try." Elise said as he jumped back. "But the scales of the Iron Dra..." Elise gasped as she felt her scales crack and stab her in the stomach. She allowed the scales to fade as she clutched the now bleeding wound, and Tetsu sighed.
"The iron of the Gods destroys all it strikes." Tetsu told her as his arm turned into what looked like a katana. "Iron God Katana!" He swung the thin blade quickly, and Elise ducked just in time to hear it slice through the air over her head. Looking back, Elise watched the trees behind her fall, their trunks cleaved clean through like it was butter.
"Iron Dragon Sword!" Elise swung her sword at Tetsu, who swung back. Elise cried out in shock as her own blade cut clean in half as well, and the destroyed end of the sword fell to the ground. "Shit..." Elise hissed, massaging her hand. "Careful where you swing that damn thing..." Tetsu chuckled as his arm turned back from the katana.
"Sorry." he replied quietly. "But I'm not in the mood to get wrecked by Taisho, so..." he rushed at Elise again, throwing her back into the lumber pile he had created with his katana. Elise though quickly and swung one of the trees at him as he jumped her, throwing him back. Elise dodged another swing from his katana and grabbed the upper half of his arm, her fist getting coated in iron.
"Iron Dragon Hard Fist!" She punched him in the arm, which caused the iron around her fist to snap and Tetsu's to make a metal o metal sound.
"Oh," Tetsu said with a grin as Elise backed up. "I forgot. The armor of the Iron God deflects all magical and none magical attacks, it is perfectly impenetrable."
"Of course it is." Elise replied with a growl. "Anything else you want to throw out there before I lose?" Tetsu placed an armored hand on his chin, humming as he thought.
"Maybe that I can't spare you should you lose?"
"...shit..."
Simon soared through the air as fast as he could, doing his best to evade the dark beams of magic from behind him. He looked to his side as Icas' face appeared there.
"I told you Simon!" He shouted with a laugh. "You can't run from me!" Bringing his foot down on Simon's back, Simon recovered just in time to avoid hitting the ground.
"Requip!" Simon shouted as he dodged in and out of the trees. "Soaring armor!" The speed boost from the leopard skin armor gave Simon the advantage, slamming the hilt of his rapier into Icas' back and his face into the dirt. Icas few out of the way as Simon struck again. Simon kept the dark dot in his vision as they weaved in and out of the forest, before they both sailed back up into the sky. Icas laughed.
"Speed boosting armor?" he asked. "I must say, that will give you an advantage in the speed game."
"I will defeat you." Simon replied, flicking his rapier in anticipation for an attack. "Just a matter of when." Icas chuckled.
"We have all the time in the world, Simon." He replied. "Do you think your guild will come and save you from the dark guild this time? Like how they dealt with Phantom Dove?" Simon raised an eyebrow at the mage opposite him.
"Is that what this is about?" Simon demanded, his rage building at the thought. "Revenge for Phantom?"
"Mostly." Icas replied, crossing his arms as they hovered three hundred feet off of the ground. "Master Kronos also said something about demons, but he wouldn't elaborate." Simon wasn't sure what it meant either, but he hoped that had nothing to do with Damien. The poor guy had enough of his own personal demons, both metaphorical and literal, he didn't need anymore. "I'm more than certain that, right now, you're friends are getting torn apart by my guildmates. Judging from the magic I saw going off as we fought, both Azzie and Katsuchi have begun, and Tetsu seems to have as well."
"We'll drop every single one of you." Simon hissed, requipping his rapier into his Fire Emperor sword, "And once we've done that, we'll take out your master! Once we've done that, I can guarantee I'll go home, have a drink or fifteen, and forget all about you. You want to know why?" Simon watched Icas fume, it was rather funny. "Because you're irrelevant." Icas grimaced.
"Coming from the son of Titania and Fernandez." He hissed in reply, charging Simon with a speed he had not seen yet. Simon had been unprepared, and flew back. he did his best to fight of Icas' repetitive attacks, but his speed increased with every blow. Pretty soon, Simon could barely see the fist before it connected with his face. Trying to gain some distance, Simon ducked back under the tree line and waited until Icas was near, and lashed out with a sword strike that cut his cloak off. Icas had dodged it, and smirked at Simon. "Peekaboo." He said as he slammed his fist into Simon again, sending him through more trees.
"Requip! Adamantine armor!" The advanced defensive armor helped Simon deflect the blows from Icas, but the speed impediment didn't help. Icas dodged another sword slash and blasted Simon with his hell magic, which Simon met with his own ray of light. The beams exploded and sent up a smoke screen that gave Simon enough time to requip back to his normal clothes. At this rate, this requip was just going to waste his magic. Icas and Simon tackled each other with their respective body magic encompassing them, and Simon felt the cold embrace of hell as Icas overpowered him. Icas gained the upper hand and throttled towards the ground, slamming Simon into a crater. Simon struggled to breath as Icas laughed darkly.
"I already told you, Simon." he said. "my magic is far stronger than yours by default, you cannot win."
"Tell that to someone who cares about odds." Simon managed to hiss as he got air back into his lungs. He managed to stand on two feet and panted heavily, glaring at Icas from under his bangs.. "Because no matter how many times you and your 'superior magic' throw me into the dirt, I'll stand back up. I don't care what it takes to beat you..." Simon stood tall, his bangs no longer obscuring his eyes. "I will defeat you, and brutally so for compensation of the airship, and my father!" Before Icas could retaliate with another biting remark, Simon tackled him through several trees and off of the cliff Simon had seen earlier, and he drove Icas' back into the cliff side.
"Bastard..." Icas hissed as Simon throttled him in the face, sending him through the rocks. Simon drove him even further through them with beams of heavenly light, but Icas flew back out and the two continued to grappled through the air.
"Enough of this!" Simon shouted, backing up a bit. Dashing through the air, he created a constellation. Icas smiled darkly. "Be judged by the seven stars above! Grand Chariot!" Activating his spell, Simon watched Icas draw a different symbol in his own magic as Grand Chariot ruched towards him.
"Receive judgement from the twelve circles!" Icas shouted. "Demon's Judgement!" The dark rays met the light rays, and another smoke screen went up. Simon waited with baited breath as the attacks continued to try and push through. Simon gasped as Demon's Judgment won and struck him directly, sending him careening back to earth.
"H-how..." Simon whispered as Icas landed in front of him. Simon watched the blood drip from his nose quietly, and Icas approached him. "How do you keep besting me...?" Icas grabbed a fistful of Simon's hair, and lifted his head so Simon was forced to stare at him.
"I told you." Icas growled darkly. "Heaven cannot best Hell. Such is the way the world works." Icas formed a ball of darkness in his hand, and laughed. "Heaven always comes up short, Simon!" Simon watched the ball grow, and Icas threw him back down to the ground.
"Shit..." Simon hissed, staring up at the open sky. "Looks like I fucked up, Dad..."
BOOM!
...Simon? Haha, more cliffhangers! Like I said above, can we get 10+ reviews for eighty chapters? I think we can, so leave one if you enjoyed!