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Chapter 11
I am Eclipsa…the Moon Transformed
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Eclipsa stood in front of her daughter, her eyes hard on the black suit of armor, it pulled the Traitor's Sword and stood at the ready, she could tell the armor was thick, it would resist her magic…for a time. Eventually she would pierce it as long as the sword didn't find itself buried in her first.
A dark bolt formed in her hand, it crackled ominously.
The Dark Knight merely watched her. Waiting.
Again Eclipsa tried to lance into Marco's mind only to be rebuff by the dark metal armor that now covered the human. She frowned before making the dark bolt twice as large, the Dark Knight ran a finger down the edge of the sword.
Eclipsa struck first, throwing the dark javelin bolt at the Dark Knight as he spun to avoid it before sending a vicious shockwave forcing her to erect a purple barrier to withstand the arc. However, the barrier was not only to block the arc but the javelin as it exploded behind Marco sending him tumbling forward. Immediately, Eclipsa fashion herself more dark javelin bolts and flung them at the down Dark Knight with all her might.
She hissed when the earth suddenly open and swallowed Marco, the javelins striking then exploding on the spot he was prior. Eclipsa turned around and looked at Meteora, she had a number of bruises and welts all over her and her lovely nose disfigured, she cast a spell over her watching the injuries mend.
"Should have taught Princess Meteora some manners, Eclipsa…" came an echo, the queen glanced around looking for the source.
"And you should have known better than to strike a woman, a princess no less, Marco."
"Your mind games won't work against me, I made sure of it. And besides…on Mewni the women wears the pants…the males are just there for reproduction, you couldn't care less who it was so long as you had your lineage above ground."
Eclipsa looked around carefully, hoping to gall Marco on, a dark bolt in her fist, "Oh, so the men should be above us? Is that how it is done in your dimension, Marco?"
"I've been to countless dimensions, worlds and governments: I've seen it all so that baloney argument don't mean squat. But yes, majority of the time the men do wear the pants in my world and sometimes they don't, our history is about trial and error, we move forward and backwards…at the same time… Hmmm…okay so maybe my dimension is not a good example but it proves everything and nothing."
Eclipsa clicked her tongue and put her hand on the ground, feeling the near lifelessness of it, "Hmph, just as archaic as our own then. Come above ground and we'll discuss this futile subject at our leisure, Dark Knight."
"I don't think so."
"Pity that, boy."
The ground turned a blacken purple before Eclipsa muttered to herself,
NIGHTMARE SPINAL TUMOR
Eclipsa felt the very planet shriek as massive dark magic spikes exploded around the two of them, she frowned as the spikes shot in every direction for miles and Marco didn't end up on one spike at all. Her frown deepen when it was done and Marco was nowhere to be seen.
"Where are you, boy…"
"…you should have not done that, Eclipsa you fecking dolt!"
The queen glanced upwards and took a step back.
Marco was standing way above her in midair as he wrestled with what looked like a thousand headed dragon made entire out of earth sprouting from his back, it's many heads locked her in place as it roared at her with what felt as if the entirety of the universe.
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"GNOME! URGHHH! NO, PLEASE! YOU'LL CLEAVE APART THIS PLANET!" Marco seemingly forced the dragon back into his body as Eclipsa's eyes darted for her daughter. By some miracle Marco saw the eye movement and felt Gnome's vengeance bleed into him, he could feel something drastic change with Gnome,
I AM PRIMAL NATURE…I AM TERRA [GNOME]!
Marco felt suddenly his body move against his will and the Earth Elemental began to channel an attack, the other Sisters yell in surprise and fear with a collective
OH SHIT! [OH SHIT!] [OH SHIT!]
TERRA METEOR!
The queen grabbed Meteora and leapt to the air, her midnight Butterfly wings unfurl out as the two fled as rocks bubbled out of dark armor forming a sort of earthen chisel before suddenly jettisoning itself for the queen.
The winds screamed as the earth covered Dark Knight pierce through, parting the air so quickly the point of the chisel glowed iridescent and flames seared all over it.
Eclipsa shot across the land as quick as she could just before the shockwave rippled and buckled the land sending fissures and the air suddenly like a solid wall slammed into Eclipsa sending her flying. Thrashing in the air and eerily hearing an unnatural scream, the queen threw out her arm and made herself a cushion barrier to crash upon, Meteora groaning alongside her mother feeling the wind knocked out of them and their ears bleeding.
The devastation of rock and dust was an unsettling image after the mushroom cloud dissipated. Massive slabs of rock and stone were jutted upwards revealing striped layers, deep scarred fissures stretched to the horizon and worse of all the earthy land after the magic was dissipated was bleached of any color. This part of the planet had succumbed. No longer would anything grow here: forever a scar on the planet.
A loud wail echoed across the land.
Marco emerged from the crater head first, clawing out of the indentation epicenter; it had nearly breached into the mantle and everything was hot to the touch. Marco could feel the sisters console an angry Gnome while Sylph helped him out of the crater and into the ruined landscape, it didn't take him long to spot Eclipsa tending to herself and Meteora.
Marco...
"I know, Gnome, but you have to rein in that anger, I can't channel your powers when you're a flailing dragon."
…fine.
Eclipsa stiffen at the sight of the Dark Knight emerging from the crater floating out as if on strings. He took a moment to find her before he darted in her direction; not bothering even with a backward glance she made a handful of dark bolts and flung them behind her back, Meteora groaning as they took off again. Marco however disregarded the bolts and simply dodged them, keeping pace with the Queen.
Marco watched them for a moment, seeing what he considered the opposite of Star's Butterfly form: while the princess shine with radiance and a golden hue, Eclipsa's wings were tarnished with inky black, what used to be delicate wings looked twisted and a cross between that of a butterfly and moth.
He saw Meteora groan awake, I better make sure she doesn't join in the fun…
He swung the sword and sent and arc after the two before chucking the sword ahead of him, his hands suddenly engulf with fire and lightning.
Eclipsa had blew the arc to pieces before watching in quiet angry as Marco unleashed a stream of fire and a fork of lightning at her from his gauntlets. She cursed loudly as she made herself a purple bubble barrier, seeing the elements positively gnaw at the surface before bouncing away. She threw her bolts only to see Marco vanish and reappear ahead of her, both hands on the ground.
Undine + Gnome
Mud Tsunami!
Eclipsa yelled as a mixture of water and soil mixed before raising itself up, obscuring the heavens before crashing over the bubble she made. The thousands of pounds of the solution sent her crashing down into the ground, she grunts as did Meteora as they floated in the soupy mud. Marco seemingly walked on the muddy water towards them,
"Give up Eclipsa, you can't hope to match me."
"Arrogant boy." Eclipsa spat, she stood up waist deep in mud before dark magic began to swirl around her, her cheek marks shined red, "You will know firsthand why I am the Queen of Darkness!"
Marco laughed at the threat, Eclipsa threw a dark javelin bolt at him and he backhand it away, the bolt exploding on impact in the distance.
"And you underestimate—!" Marco felt his body suddenly lifted and slammed into the mud, he gurgled as a monstrous hand kept him under. Eclipsa smirked as her magic finished healing Meteora and she managed to sneak up on the Dark Knight as he started monologuing.
Over confidence.
Meteora thrashed Marco under the mud before launching him upwards as Eclipsa unleashed a dark bolt volley, smashing into the tin man repeatedly. Meteora leapt to meet Marco, clasping both hands together, swung downwards and pelt Marco into the mud pool below. Eclipsa rode the mud wave that Marco produced upon impact.
Eclipsa caught Meteora before she hit the mud pool, Marco struggled to get up, the armor and thick mud making it difficult for the Dark Knight.
Meteora stalked closer, she swept a claw hand under the mud and found a nice big stone to crumple the helm with, she grinned feral and Eclipsa merely watched, Marco was on fours panting like a dog.
The hybrid grinned victoriously as she held up high for a moment and brought it down, Eclipsa readied to blast Marco if he countered.
GNOME + UNDINE
FOREST RAMPAGE!
The two Butterflys grunted as a massive canopy of trees exploded from underneath them, the trees grew high and eventually they fell through the bushy top and hit the branches until they were in the undergrowth. Eclipsa helped Meteora up as the two looked around, the mud had receded leaving the two in a rather dark and spooky forest, Marco was nowhere to be seen.
Eclipsa frowned, looking around, she had always been able to home in on her enemies and friends thanks to her ability to mind read, she could pinpoint and filter them effectively. But with Marco, she had to rely on her sight and other senses to keep up with the Dark Knight, he was effectively a blind spot to her mentally, thankfully with her daughter whose senses are amplified she needn't worry about ambushes.
Meteora sniffed the air before she shook her head, "I can't smell him out…damn place reeks of wood and earthy aromas…"
Well, there goes that advantage…
Eclipsa frowned when she could hear someone suddenly singing, however it wasn't Marco's own voice. Marco stared dumbfounded as a mud person made itself out of its own accord and pulled an electric guitar out of the ground,
"Musica, no! Don't!"
The mud person merely winked and began to strum,
Welcome to the Jungle!
We got fun 'n' games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
Marco groaned before rushing out of his hiding place and throwing fistful of fireballs, forcing the two to split as he threw the average size searing shots. Some bounced off Meteora's toughen and magically reinforced hide, Eclipsa blew them apart in mid air with her dark bolts. Marco frowned, knowing if they were stronger he would have the upper hand.
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money, honey
We got your disease
Marco leapt over fallen trees as Meteora started to uproot them and threw them with her monstrous strength, he slid as tree trunks came crashing from above and thrown like spears at him. Eclipsa took advantage of Marco's attention and managed to tag him, sending him rolling into the soil and scrambling for cover.
In the jungle, welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
Shun na, na, na, na, na, na, na knees, knees!
*moaning*
I wanna watch you bleed!
Eclipsa threw a dark bolt somewhere in the forest and was pleased to hear an electric guitar explode.
Marco pressed himself against a tree trunk, catching his breath, he touched the ground feeling their movements as they explored the massive forest he made,
Uh, we made, thank you very much.
Taking credit for our work, Marco?
"Okay, okay, your work. Anyways, with the two of them I'll need more than 10% Seraph; I need an advance pay on those percentage."
[No. I refuse to give you anymore than that.]
Marco mentally sighed, while he had access to a great amount of powers it was always on loan. He could never abuse it thanks to Seraph, the Elementals would happily give it to him, most of them anyways but with a handicap like this, he would just have to get clever.
He stood up and let Slyph dance around his feet, he took a tentative step forward before dashing forward; immediately dark bolts exploded around him, Eclipsa sent volleys viciously, Marco growled not wanting her. He skid, his fingertips touching the ground and making more trees before slamming into Meteora, recovering she spewed fire and he ran for it, making trees as he went.
The hybrid spewed acrid fire at the circling Dark Knight, leaving the two in a ring of fire, Meteora continued until Eclipsa quickly reprimanded her, "Foolish girl! Look we're trapped and we'll suffocate!"
Meteora's face turned scarlet at being scolded like a child, Marco leapt through the flames and tagged her on the back of her head making the hybrid spew fire at him, scorching more wood and adding to the massive inferno.
"Miss me with that fire!" Marco laughed as he threw fireballs back at them, the fireballs bouncing off Meteora and making more fire spots.
Meteora roared at him.
Eclipsa fed up with the boy's tactics and the sweltering heat and smoke, grabbed her daughter and unfurl her wing and the two burst through the top canopy, all around them was the forest doused in a sea of fiery red, yellow and orange.
This forest…he was planning to trap us with it, a good decision…bad execution.
Marco ran out of the forest, seeing the two on the leafy canopy, he looked around seeing the massive wildfire Meteora had made for him.
Yes, that's plenty, now I have all the fire power in the world now!
"Let them have it, Ignis!"
Marco grinned as he drew himself up and launched a fireball at the two, Eclipsa scoffed and threw a dark bolt and exploded it. The Dark Knight made another one and flung it, the queen made another bolt and threw it, as the fireball got closer, the forest fire joined the fireball doubling the size.
"WHAT!?"
The bolt did nothing to the fireball and forced the two to split apart, Marco drew up more fireballs and flung it at the two, each turning massive forcing the two to flee the fire volley. Eclipsa threw dark bolts and the fireballs easily dwarfed them, they only served to make them more threatening.
Eclipsa fumed, that boy used Meteora to fan his flames! He's flaming us to death!
Marco could see the two regrouping, he roared calling upon Slyph and Ignis,
Slyph + Ignis
Great Breakthrough: Wildfire Wave!
Eclipsa and Meteora felt their blood run cold despite the sudden increase in temperature as Marco sent a massive gust of scorching wind at them only to be amplified by the wildfire making it a massive wave of fire, the sheer brilliance of the flames lit the dark recesses of the night, outshining the stars.
Seeing the wave of destruction about to embrace her and her daughter, Eclipsa grabbed hold of Meteora before both cheek marks glowed iridescent.
Grrr, MARCO!
Eclipsa's arms darken further as she unleashed a massive dark magic wave, the two waves clashed, each unwilling to give into the other, Eclipsa gritted her teeth as she poured in more magic even drawing upon Meteora's massive reserves to just compete with the hellish wall of fire.
Sylph!
STORM BREAKER!
Marco wasn't slouching either and sent vicious gusts of wind, making the wave even more massive, nearly breaching Eclipsa's own dark wave. The two waves wobbled precariously as if contemplating who would fall first.
Eclipsa held her breath.
Then the queen screamed as her wave bowed and collapsed forcing her to throw a barrier over herself as the inferno came crashing down, scorching the forest to cinders along with the earth.
Marco panted, feeling the toll of the Elements, "I hope…I didn't deep fry…those two…"
…not going to lie, but I bet Moku is pissed.
DAMN STRAIGHT I AM!
Marco winced hearing the Wood Element nearly on the verge of tears, anger fresh in her words, but she had a better hold on her anger than Gnome did.
You better re-plant this planet when you're done, Diaz!
"I will."
Marco looked around the scorched land, he made slow drawing motion, from bottom to top and drew up water before sending it washing into the blacken soil, the sizzling of water and smell of wet charcoal and ash filled the air. He got his sword to come back to him as he walked through the burnt out patch of land, surveying the amount of damage he had caused. He could see a clear line of where the two waves had clashed, the soil tough and darken, he touched the black soil before little green shoots grew underneath his fingertips.
He smiled but still concerned on the whereabouts of the two.
He continued to trek across the destruction, stepping over toasted logs and trunks, branches easily breaking underneath his boot and soot and ash coating it. Marco looked far ahead of him, Seraph's words stinging his ears, somehow someway she could do this and none of her sisters could hear her,
[This is exactly why I will never let you have my Sisters, Dark Knight. Your people are callous to nature…and so are you.]
"…you give me too much credit."
[Don't…test my patience. After this farce, I'm taking them all back with me, you will never have my Sisters at your whims again.]
"…the more you coddle them, the more they want to prove themselves."
Marco stumbled when his heart suddenly was filled with light, he clutch it and the Elementals noticed. Marco mentally assured them he was fine as Seraph glared at him, "I don't want them to think badly of you, Seraph. You have every right to be angry."
Marco straighten up and continued to walk among the devastated landscape, his footsteps making small patches of grass, unbeknownst to him.
A wet crunch underneath his boot made him pause, his eyes fell upon a shallow indentation.
Marco slammed a palm into the ground just before the place around him exploded, massive claw hands of dark magic rising to crush him.
MOKU!
GRAND WOODEN FORTRESS!
Massive wooden pillars, archways, walls and such came thundering up from underneath Marco, him being pushed upwards by a massive floor, pillars spreading horizontal, vertical and diagonal to keep the structure stable. The Dark Knight saw Eclipsa and Meteora tangled amongst the growing fortress before the place he stood was quickly converted into a plain room with a desk, chair, shelf and door way out.
Marco knocked on the desk feeling the concrete feeling before sitting on the chair, Moku made herself out of the wall and stood before him.
"How are you feeling today, Moku?"
The Wood Elemental glared at him, she took to an Australian Buloke wood at the moment, her hair red-brown and her complexion light brown with freckles that seemed yellowish.
"I should leave you to deal with those…women of yours, Marco. I can feel them breaking my nice furniture…"
"Can they even break it?"
Moku gave him an impish look before she shook her head, crossing her arms, "Of course not! I don't make termite-infested wood! All this smart-talking-mercenary-facade…I gotta give you some wood. To the face."
"Please don't." Marco laughed, "You'd enjoy it too much."
Moku sighed before sitting on the desk feeling the slight tremors and howling of Meteora as she tried to burn and punch the wooden structure to no avail, "Remember to reinvigorate this planet…too many barren ones nowadays, I would like to see my Elementals sisters here awaken."
Marco nodded before he stood up hearing more commotion from the two Butterflys wreaking havoc inside the lovely wooden fortress. Moku followed him through the door before they heard Musica's echoing singing, a lyrically refreshing voice,
Embrace the dark you call a home,
Gaze upon an empty, white throne
A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
"WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN YOU HARPY!?" Meteora screamed.
"Musica really does love her songs…"
"Well, that's why you named her that, blockhead."
"Heh, well, that's why you're 'Moku'."
Moku turned away at her name, she twirled a lock of her hair before pointing to a section of the fortress being hammered and splintered, several holes punched through already no doubt Eclipsa and Meteora didn't respect hospitality.
"Teach them to respect nature's bounty, Marco."
Marco grinned leapt off the balcony, a wooden pillar sprout for him to land before he leapt again only to have more pillars assist him. Moku watched him for a moment before Musica skipped along to meet her.
…your boyfriend is a bad influence.
You're just jealous you're not with Monster Arm!
…you're some kind of freak aren't you, Musica?
Super freak! Cause I'm a very special girl!
Marco winced hearing Moku yell at her sister as he reached the Butterflys' floor, the walls exploding and sending chucks of wood and splinters at the Dark Knight, he batted them away with his sword and pointed it at them.
"Is this how you treat your host's hospitality?"
Meteora roared at him, spewing fire all over him, he slammed the sword down before grappling with Meteora, falling over the railings with the hybrid. Eclipsa threw a dark bolt at the sword
The queen blinked seeing the sword unfazed by the blast but more so at the lack of a teleporting Dark Knight to it. Eclipsa yelled as the floor beneath her broke apart she fell to the next floor in a heap as Marco recalled the sword back to him.
Eclipsa threw dark bolts at Marco as he easily swatted them away, she drew herself up and thrust both palms at him,
NEBULAR SLASH!
Marco held the sword defensively as massive dark and milky spatial colored magic arcs burst forth forcing the Dark Knight to hastily defend himself. A loud thud echoed in the background.
Marco brought the sword down to his hip and spun hard sending out a massive horizontal arc at the Queen, Eclipsa snarled and brought her hand down and the two arcs exploded on contact. Marco leapt to the railing, balancing himself before he ran to the left just as Eclipsa shot after him, her wings unfurled and shooting dark bolts at him.
The queen gave a quick glance down and saw Meteora picking herself up from the ruins of broken wood, seeing more dents on the wood likely when she fell.
NIGHTMARE SWARM!
Marco yelped as thousands of moths and evil butterflies suddenly enveloped him, gnawing at his armor before he fell over the railings. Eclipsa quickly glanced down to watch him fall only to yank her head back as the Traitor's Sword nearly beheaded her as it slammed into the ceiling above her.
Marco appeared a moment later engulfed in fire, Eclipsa swung her fist at him and Marco crumpled into the wall as a massive dark magic fist met him.
"Be proud of yourself, Marco," Eclipsa spat as she pulled her gloves off as the massive fist held him in place, she looked at her arms before making a dark bolt, "You have made me use my powers more often than I would have liked…aw, see here, Marco? My arms are fit to bursting, ow…"
She held out her arms, the near blacken purple coloring had scarlet spidery veins on the surface, "Not only is it spreading but my body…hmph, well it bears not to think, I guess I'll just crush your head now."
The Dark Knight clawed as the fist pressed harder, the metal creaking, "You could have been such a great pawn…I wonder what you could have sired, Marco."
Eclipsa gestured and the fist pushed and the Dark Knight disappeared out of sight.
Without a backward glance, she threw a dark bolt at the sword and the materializing Dark Knight was soundly struck and fell to the ground, the queen laughed,
"Predictable."
"AM I?"
Eclipsa doubled over as Marco burst out of the hole in the wall and struck the queen sending her slamming into the railings. The suit of armor pulled itself up and flew, setting itself once again on the Dark Knight, he grunted feeling the heavy metal fall upon him again. Eclipsa wiped her chin, dark bolts in her hands, she twisted them and they became more dagger-like, Marco looked at the sword before raised his dukes.
And the two swapped hands.
Marco looked clumsy compared to the queen as she surprisingly and gracefully maneuvers around him, jabbing her dark daggers into his midsection and across his face. Dancing away as his fist or metal boot missed her by mere inches.
He feints and threw a jab and she grabbed him by the wrist before a massive dark hand exploded from the floor and uppercut him. Marco grunted before the hand let him go before he was swatted flying across the open space and slamming through the wooden wall into another part of the fortress.
Eclipsa looked at her arms for a moment before she sighed and flew after Marco.
The Dark Knight shook his head, pushing broken planks and plywood from himself and looked around: the dining hall. He looked at the hole he entered from and the tables and chairs he smashed to bits, Moku really outdone herself.
Marco straighten up as Eclipsa entered the hall, she whistled looking around and seeing the marvelous handiwork and craftsmanship, "This would have made to be a lovely abode, too bad I'll have to bury you in it."
Marco regarded her for a moment,
"If I was so inclined…"
"You would do what exactly, boy?"
He snapped his finger and Eclipsa froze.
Screaming. Loud screaming.
"This is my house, Eclipsa. Here: I am King."
The queen stared at Marco.
"What's attacking my daughter."
"Nothing lethal hopefully. But—they do get overly excited." Marco paused when an echoing crash reached them.
Eclipsa's cheek marks glowed violently red, her eyes aflame, she quietly spoke to the Dark Knight, as if finally her temper and patience had reached its end.
"You die this day, Marco Diaz."
Marco felt his marrow ache at the chilling declaration.
And he watched in horrid fascination as Eclipsa assumed her True Butterfly Form.
It wasn't majestic like Moon or Star's. It was a maddening sight.
Her wings sprouted out but instead of the midnight wings he saw before it shed the insectoid look and instead the flaps were made of skin, bruised and veiny, it stretched as if hands; no antenna but instead was twisting ghoulish horns, her sclera darken only leaving hollow eyes, her cheek marks bled as if overflowing with crimson and arms pushed out, twisting from her sides, grasping and clawing, fingernails long and sharp, her once pale skin turned gray only her arms retain color of dark magic contamination; she snarled showing her jagged uneven sharp teeth.
I AM ECLIPSA, QUEEN OF DARKNESS, HIGH QUEEN OF MEWNI.
FEAR ME.
Marco felt his entire armor rattled as she casually flicked her hands and he was sent flying from the mere gesture, smashing through more tables and chairs. She cocked her head before she screamed, shaking the fortress and his skull before she charged at him, her claw hands skittering off the floor and sending a vicious slash across the armor, leaving deep marks.
Marco gasped seeing Eclipsa's darker magic and powers at work, he clapped his hands together making the wooden furniture fly and smack the queen but it was torn apart from a single slap from the queen. She grinned evilly at him, he gulped realizing Eclipsa wasn't going to work up a sweat with him.
She was out to kill him.
Marco jabbed out fireballs at her and she screamed at it, the fireballs exploding harmlessly from her.
The sounds of cries from below got Marco sweating.
Somehow, Eclipsa was boosting Meteora too.
The queen could see the Dark Knight's trepidation and she laughed, her ugly cackle echoing in the fortress before she shot at him, hands filled with swirling dark magic. Marco leapt away only to be blasted across his hall.
Eclipsa was more nimble and her wings gave her the advantage of leaping higher and staying aloft, allowing her to scrape and slash the Dark Knight. Marco however sent fireballs, blast of wind and even planks of wood into Eclipsa.
But it mattered little to the queen, shattering them with a gesture or scream, the madden queen continued her assault.
Marco held out a hand for his sword only to be swatted by Eclipsa, she screamed like a banshee and smashed him into the wall halfway through before dragging him by his leg, breaking the wall with his midsection. The Dark Knight kicked at the queen only to receive a dark dagger stabbed behind his knee, Marco yelled in pain and Eclipsa wasted no time tearing him across each support beam in the wall. It broke and gave way but in return it dented the armor further and further before Eclipsa yanked him back leaving his head in the wall.
And repeated the process.
Breaking the wall supports with the Dark Knight's helm before viciously slamming him into the wooden floor, Marco skidded before he came to a stop. He painfully pulled out the dagger before pulling himself up a table leg.
Eclipsa blew the table apart making Marco fell flat on his back.
Marco lifted his head, one side of the helm nearly flatten, blood dribbled down the side of his cheek and neck. The queen landed before him making herself a handful of daggers, Marco swung his fist at her sending a fireball, she flicked a dagger only to see Marco send a blast of wind amplifying the fireball and it smote her.
Marco pushed himself up only to see the wings protectively wrapping the Butterfly.
It snapped open and a shockwave sent him crashing into the far wall, it creaked and fell backwards with him still lodged into it. Marco rolled to his side and pushed himself up, feeling every bone positively aflame, he refused to whimper in pain and struggled to his feet, the armor making it difficult.
He half expected Eclipsa to kick him over the railings, but when Meteora climbed into view, throwing something over her shoulder, he understood the pause in the assault.
Gone was her Monster Form, now the hybrid took to her mother's lineage, her Butterfly Form.
Meteora didn't change overly, she retain her pasty complexion and ashen hair. She had everything he had seen before of the Butterfly form however her wings weren't as big as her mother's. But that didn't detract from each purple-black swirled wing having a pair of red eyes on the top and lower section, her extra four arms wrapped around her bodice and surprisingly her dress was knit back together and had an ethereal glow of silver, her tail even had a little bow-band tied to it. All in all, she looked like a proper Butterfly now, but the ugly look on her face, the savage grin and hateful eyes detracted immensely how stunning she could have been.
"Princess Marco…"
"…well, fuck."
Marco braced himself as Meteora shot arms out, crying out gleefully,
HEINOUS NEEDLES!
Marco bit back a yell as foot long 'needles' nearly skewered him, the armor rebuffing them but some managed to stick by the tip. He swept an arm down his front before Meteora charged and pinned him to the wall, her many arms holding him by the neck, arms, torso and her tail wrapping his legs.
"Oh, how I waited for this, Princess…" Meteora snarled, she ran a fingernail painfully down his visor, peeling metal, "I'm going to take away everything you ever loved as payback for what you done and taken from me! You'll watch powerless to do anything about it!"
"You had it coming after what you done to all those princesses, Heinous." Marco spat, "And what you're doing now…you're no better than your tormentors."
"WHAT IF I AM?! MORALITY IS A BULLSHIT LIE! I WANT SUCCULENT SATISFACTION AND REVENGE! DAMN YOU AND EVERYONE WHO DID THIS TO ME! YOU USE THAT MEDIOCRE MORAL HIGH GROUND TO CONTROL OTHERS, BUT I'M NOT FALLING FOR IT! I AM TO BE QUEEN OF MEWNI ONE DAY AND THAT USURPER HAG MOON AND SPOILED BRAT STAR TOOK IT FROM US! FROM ME!" Meteora screeched.
Marco groaned when she cocked back a fist and dented his midsection, Eclipsa watched the exchange mutely, it seemed like she almost a statue.
"AND IF I CHOOSE TO BURN MEWNI TO THE GROUND—SO BE IT!" she grabbed his visor and tried to pry it open, her mouth full of purple flames.
UNDINE!
WATER PISTOL!
Marco's visor snapped up, crushing Meteora's finger, she roared fire spewing from her nostrils as Marco unleashed a pressurized stream of water from his lips into her face and sending her smashing into the railing.
YUKI!
FREEZING MIST!
Meteora's eyes widen as the water hose froze over her, encapsulating her in an ice cocoon, her flames frozen in her mouth, no doubt turning it into a mucky grease. Marco turned it on Eclipsa just as she glide for him, freezing the dark bolts aimed at his vulnerable face. She zipped underneath and clipped his legs making him fall over, he slammed his palm on the floor and wooden pillars shot upwards barring the queen from him.
He called his sword just as Eclipsa sliced through the wood with a dark magic blade from all of her six arms and darted for him. Marco gritted his teeth and brought the sword down from attacking stance to defensive, even with her empty socket eyes he could feel the smug glee from her.
He still could not turn the Traitor's Sword edge directly on her.
Or Meteora for that matter.
Marco blocked the many arms.
Horizontal. Vertical. Diagonal. Thrust. Jab. Stab. Backhand. Overhead. Lunge. Riposte.
The many dark magic blades that bypass his guard cut into the armor.
Shallow.
But each cut grew deeper and deeper.
Exasperated with the onslaught Marco spun, a backhand from the metal gauntlet colliding with Eclipsa's face definitely made her stumble before Marco kicked her into the wall, wooden serpents wrapped the queen. Before she could banshee scream her way out, Marco's visor snapped open,
Ignis + Sylph
Blast Rupture!
Eclipsa screamed as the massive fireball smote everything around her, leaving her unharmed but a blacken hole surrounding her. Marco brought the sword down to send an arc only to have Eclipsa snap a finger at him, the floor exploded into splinters and he sank waist deep. The Traitor's Sword thud into the hard floor harmlessly.
Eclipsa shot forward and caught Marco's arm as he readied to jab a fireball, he yelled as the hand crushed the metal as another hand rose with a dark magic butcher knife and it descend for his forearm.
MARCO!
He felt the metal peel off him just in time as the blade sliced through armor plating, he tuck his arm back and collected a handful of lightning and lance Eclipsa back into the wall.
Marco panted, seeing Eclipsa pull herself up, he looked at his armor-less arm before he was pushed out of the hole courtesy of Moku. He looked around as the fortress began to shift, changing itself as pillars, beams and partitions moved to separate Marco and Eclipsa.
He breathed a sigh of relief before he heard something crack behind him, he rolled to the side on instinct just as Meteora attempted to haymaker the back of his head in.
"Tsk, you should have stayed, Princess Marco…" Meteora mocked, "Then your death would have been quick and painless, now I have to rip you apart, limbs and all. Slowly."
Marco narrowed his eyes, his sword still stuck to the floor, Meteora walked and stood between him and it.
The Dark Knight sighed before he warped behind Meteora to his sword and jabbed a fireball for her back.
Her tail unfurled underneath her dress and malicious flicked the projectile back at him, his helm knocked off his head before Meteora spun and punched him. Marco blinked in mute shock what just happened, he could dimly hear Meteora cursing over her burnt tail.
Marco felt the fortress tremble, the sound of dark bolts exploding got him to his feet and faced off with Meteora.
"No matter how much you separate us, Princess, mother and daughter will always be reunited!" Meteora sneered, magic swirling around her hands, Marco called his sword just as she thrust her arms forward and all six hands shot out a ray of twisted magic at him.
HIENOUS BLAST!
Marco faced the blade flat to deflect the concentrated beam, he grunted as he was pushed back, his metal boots scoring the floor. Meteora laughed nastily as she pushed forward, uncaring how much magic she used, "DIE PRINCESS!"
Marco was pressed against the wall, he snarled and wind danced at his feet, he kicked hard and sent a wind javelin to the hybrid only to have her disengage one arm to blast it apart.
Moku!
A little busy dealing with the other one!
Marco grunted as stray beams skitter off the blade, making sizzling black scorches on the wood, Meteora took noticed and increase the blast making even more stray beams. Marco roared as one slowly burned across his thigh and shoulder, his arms nearly gave at the sudden pain.
"Yes, burn!" Meteora cackled, Marco tuck his head to the side as a beam sizzled where his head used to be, the smell of burnt wood started to get overpowering. The hybrid step closer and closer, Marco's arms began to ache and burn, Meteora gleeful got closer to see his face turn from defiance into despair.
Marco roared and twisted the blade, pushing himself to the side in an angle, the stray beams sliced through the armor and he bled underneath the metal, however in that brief instance he got the beam to reflect and cut Meteora down with her own beam.
The hybrid numbly stares at him; stopping the beam flow a second later before glancing down at her belly, seeing a charred line and the smell of cooked meat.
Marco panted and walked off to the side as Meteora clutch herself, hoping to stop herself from toppling over as she felt the charred line go around past her sides.
"…you…?"
"..."
Marco felt an unnatural level of dark magic permeate inside of the fortress; a shriek told him Eclipsa was coming.
The Dark Knight drew up his sword and without a second thought unleashed an arc as the far wall exploded, the arc cut through the smoke revealing nothing, no Eclipsa blitzing in. Behind him the wall explode and Marco spun and thrust the armor-less arm out, a fireball hurling through the hole.
No Eclipsa.
Marco buckled and yelled as his back exploded with pain, dark magic spikes pierced through the armor and flesh. He bulged his muscles, feeling a sickening paralysis, he spasm before crane his neck enough to see Eclipsa in the first hole looking at him before she flew in and began to mend Meteora.
Her daughter pitifully wept to her.
"Mother…he…he…it hurts…"
"Shhh…"
Marco watched as Eclipsa huffed painfully as a bugle rose from her throat into her mouth, with deft hands she took the glob in her mouth, turning out to be some sort of organic magical silk and began to sew Meteora's midsection, a dark magic needle piercing skin, she cried.
The queen paid no mind as she continued to work while Marco could hardly move, even his breathing became laborious, damnit! Seraph, purge this Dark Magic! I can't move!
[…you went too far Marco.]
"What?!"
[You killed Meteora…if not for her mother, you'd have killed her. Look as she sews her child.]
"You got to be joking! You knew exactly what she was capable of! The both of them! Don't act as if this is—"
[Don't even think of twisting your words, boy…you broke your word. I'm taking my Sisters home. Good luck fighting these harlots. Alone.]
Paralyzed.
And his head fit to bursting as all the Elementals screamed at Seraph, even quiet Hallow spoke her mind.
Purge it out of his system!
Are you mad?!
They are beating him to a pulp!
[Seraph, you can't do this.]
But you promised we would all help!
[ENOUGH! I said we would help him but what he has done has gone too far. We are not going to lend our awesome powers to him to abuse any longer!]
More arguing ensued.
Somewhere deep inside, Marco could feel the grins and head shaking of his other guests.
The arguments escalated and Seraph's voice screech over the others.
[You're only angry because he reminds you of **m******a******r**c***u***s***! These 'restrictions' are just you trying to keep him safe! Because Marco looks just like him doesn't he? We all thought it was him when he came to Prima! Don't you lie, Seraph!]
Marco felt his fear of the two Butterflys evaporate at the astonishment of Hallow, the soft-spoken Darkness Elemental, raising her voice and speaking whole-heartedly at her counterpart. Even the other Elementals were in shock as were his other guests, Monster Arm had the tact not to say anything snide or stupid.
Marco's head swam with the new information, whoever he resembled…'his' name escaped his understanding, only pieces of it registered to him…he quietly said it to himself, Marcus…
[Marco…take command of my Sisters, just know your body will not withstand such raw power, prepare yourself and deliver the coup de grace already.]
"I understand, thank you, Hallow."
Marco felt the burst of power flood his system and he broke the spikes, Eclipsa looked up at him not at all shock before she snapped her finger at him, he brought his sword down but blown back all the same, slamming into the wall as his armor crack and pieces fell.
CARRION CANNON
Marco spit to the side before he let the fire dance into his open hand, the flame much more intense as it burned his fingers, he threw it the fireball before using his other hand and collected two Elementals.
Sylph + Olive
Napalm Storm!
The fireball bloated at the added ingredients engulfing the entire room in flames, even with Ignis blocking the flames for Marco, he could still feel the sweltering temperature. Eclipsa stared at the flames, arms around Meteora sealing her wound as the other four shot forward and erected a barrier.
Marco knocked on the wall and tumbled out as the wall gave away, he nursed his redden fingers as he limped away. Despite the additional power, his body was having an adverse effect already, Hallow flood his system and that allowed him to overload the spikes, but now he felt sullen and dreadful and Ignis's Incendiary were too hot to the touch.
His body couldn't handle it.
He was susceptible to killing himself if he didn't gauge it right.
Marco limped further down the floor, no doubt Eclipsa would not give chase until Meteora was healed. He motioned for Moku and began to make traps: false floors, falling archways, painted doors and such, anything to slow them down while he recuperated.
The Dark Knight thought of hightailing it, but squash the notion. Knowing Eclipsa would retaliate by taking it out on the denizens of Mewni and they weren't ready to contend with the queen while they bicker amongst themselves.
He needs to bring Eclipsa to heel first.
Then deal with the rest of Mewni.
He set a few more traps, using the Elements in smaller doses before Moku made him a room and he sat on a chair, feeling the effects catching up to him. Seraph refused to heal him alongside Undine, the Water Elemental was silent as she worked, doing an infinitesimal job compared when Seraph helped. The sword left standing on it's tip.
"Thank you all…for helping me…"
The Elementals gave half-hearted answers, sensing Seraph's simmering rage with all of them.
"…Seraph, who is Marcus?"
[...]
"I don't know his full name…but that's what I caught."
[...]
Marco…the thing is… **m******a******r**c***u***s*** is before our time. Well, most of us. Seraph and Hallow are among the oldest of us, Elementals, not counting the rest.
"I don't understand…"
[Good. Because you have no right to know. And all of you…shut your mouths.]
Tell that to—
[Don't test me *inaudible*, I was left in charge of all of you, DO NOT DEFY ME.]
"Seraph that's not fair, you can't—"
[You know what Marco: I hate that nickname you gave me. I hate the nicknames you gave to all of my sisters. They have proper names before you came and gave them those little pet names. Is that what my sisters are to you: pets? You didn't deserve to step foot on Prima, your existence mistake. I hate your species for what they done to their birth planet, but I could forgive that, stupid little ingrates you humans are. But you are not excused. I hate you, Marco.]
Marco was silent despite hearing the sisters being riled up again.
He contemplated how Seraph felt, ever since he landed on Prima she made it clear she wanted him gone and to forget the place, now he knew a bit of it, but it wasn't the whole picture.
What did **m******a******r**c***u***s*** do to upset her so?
His musing was stopped when he could hear the wood being torn apart and splintered. The sound of traps being sprung and the cries of shock and outrage.
Marco pushed himself up and grabbed the sword.
He resign himself to not deflect any dark bolts as Eclipsa and Meteora attempted to flush him out, there was a chance they would miss him on their search.
Bolts blasted through the walls. Smoke wafted through the planks. The sound of furniture breaking and thrown to the lower floors.
"He's not here Mother!"
"…sniff him out."
Marco frowned as the sound of a four-legged beast scamper closer and closer; he readied himself.
He jumped up just as a dark magic hand erupted underneath him, the door burst open and Meteora lunged, missing Marco as he came down and spring board off Meteora and out the door.
He threw a handful of flames then a glob of napalm courtesy of Olive and left Meteora, he leapt over the railing in time to see Eclipsa miss him with a blast of dark magic. Moku grew out wooden pillars and brought him to safety but the Butterflys weren't done with him.
Marco landed on the next floor and immediately ran as the ceiling gave and Meteora was back on his tail.
"Princess Marcooo…"
Marco replied with a lance of lightning, his arm spasms as the arcs did as much damage to the hybrid as it did to him.
Eclipsa came into view and he quickly called upon the Elementals in rapid succession to defend himself,
GNOME + IGNIS
LAVA PLUME!
The searing blast radius Marco made forced Eclipsa to flee as the very air ignited and burned, he felt his tongue burnt all over. Meteora recovered and leapt at him, clawing for his face,
UNDINE + IGNIS
BOILING ERUPTION!
Marco's lips burned as he doused the hybrid with boiling water, leaving her rolling on the ground. The Dark Knight groaned feeling his body racked with pain, he dragged himself forward even when Eclipsa reared her ugly head again.
Marco let her get closer, this time he was going to get her. He bit hard on his redden lips as Eclipsa struck him with her paralyzing spikes again, in his last ditch effort he spun himself as Eclipsa was literally nose-to-nose with him.
JEWEL!
CRYSTAL CHRYSALIS!
Eclipsa lunged just as crystals exploded underneath floorboards and crystalize her, a fingernail pressed against Marco's heart.
The Dark Knight shakily sighed, that was too close…
He grimace ready to flood his system again with Hallow to break free
He spurt out blood from his mouth and nose, his head ringing before his ears began to bleed too. Marco was rigid despite having no strength to remain upright, his body immobilized, he blinked furiously as blood began to drip from his eyes too, did I…use too much…?
His eyes were drawn down to the fingernail, his heart pumped even harder as a sickly black bruise began to spread from the nail. His eyes looked at the queen and she was smiling at him, haughtily.
Meteora got to her feet, wicking her hair of the water before she ran a fingernail on the crystal, she twisted it painfully making an inconceivable high sharp pitch akin to a dinner plate being grounded with a metal spoon, nails scrapping on a blackboard.
The crystal cracked and shattered, Eclipsa smirked to herself dusting the shards,
"Nice try, boy. Now, die."
Eclipsa gave a careless gesture.
BUTTERFLY KNIFE
Marco felt as if his insides were stuck with a searing blade, unable to move and even cry out at the dark magic assault. But he refused to give the two Butterflys the satisfaction of him weeping at their torture.
Even as the dark magic began to encroach all over him, snuffing out the sight of them and leaving him in darkness…
Marco could feel his feeble pulse, desperately thrumming as more and more dark magic invaded his being, the Elementals could easily escape however they were resolute to stand by him.
"…you have to leave or you'll be in their clutches…"
Marco fight back already!
You've dealt with worse, c'mon!
This is not a warrior's death!
[…] [Marco…]
"Seraph…I just want you to know: you're a bitch. Keep me in the dark, that's fine, but your Sisters have a right to know who 'Marcus' is. Whatever circumstance prevents you from telling them, you're just hurting them and I can tell, you're hurting yourself too. Be honest with them and yourself."
[You're going to spend your last moments berating me? Hmph, I expected begging.]
"You're right, I should be begging for your Light to overcome Eclipsa's dark magic. But you're not the only one whom I can ask for power beyond reckoning…"
[Hmph, well, go on. Destroy yourself.]
The Elementals were startled at the callous answer.
Marco sighed as he turned his attention to the other guests he had.
Nuh-uh, I may be powerful Marco, but Eclipsa made me, no way I'll be helpful.
"You've never been helpful ever, Monster Arm."
Tch, touchy.
Marco looked past the Elementals, Ignis looked at him sorrowfully as most of them, Seraph glared at him.
/Hm? Are you sure, Marco? Using Seraph would be a lot less stressful on you, I might just kill you~/
"I have full faith you won't."
/Ah, this is what you call an 'idiot'~! Fine, let's play, and you don't be shy, join in too, Sisters!/
Marco felt Chronos channel an iota of her essences, her powers instantly flooding him, the Elementals watched fearfully as Marco tried to harness the minuscule fraction of power Chronos lent him.
Chronos leaned towards Seraph,
/You know~ Marco's not going to last very long with my powers, he'll drop dead right after his first blade stroke but then again most of this world would be destroyed. Why don't you help him, little Seraph?/
[...]
/Mhmmm, all this pouting, over one single soul? That's not like you, Seraph, then again you want to see him again; even for a moment, right?/
Seraph watched as Chronos's powers transformed Marco, baring his teeth as the power coursed rapidly and painfully through him, her sisters crowding around him, helpless. She closed her eyes at the scene, a familiar scene from the past and she fought with herself for what felt like an eternity…
-it means Light, I think you embody everything about it [Starlight].
Seraph drove a hand into her heart and pulled out a pearl of light and threw it into Marco, he gasped as the light poured into him, the Elementals looked at her surprised, she glared at them.
[Well? On your feet, Dark Knight!]
Eclipsa looked at her handiwork, Marco completely enveloped in dark magic, coated over and over again, the sword was untouched but that didn't matter.
"I win."
Eclipsa and Meteora laughed at the sight of Marco.
Completely saturated by dark magic, imprisoned inside his own body, he might as well be a statue.
"Let's put him on the foyer!"
They laughed again.
They stopped when they heard a familiar voice singing from somewhere in the fortress,
I'm at war with the world
'cause I ain't never gonna sell my soul
I've already made up my mind
No matter what I can't be bought or sold
"Now, let's kill that stupid song bird…"
Eclipsa glared at the song before looking back at Marco before the two leapt back as the dark magic began to crackle with a bright light.
"Impossible!"
When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again
I'm awake
I'm alive
Eclipsa wasted no time and hurled dark bolts into Marco, but it instead bounced and exploded elsewhere. Meteora let out a gout of flames and it did nothing as well to the still Marco.
The light grew brighter and brighter, Eclipsa's eyes burned at the sight as Marco seemingly overcome her magic. The two tore wooden planks and threw furniture upon Marco but nothing seemed to stop the progress of light, even as the two heckled him with more fire, more dark bolts, more bleeding dark magic, Marco began to shine, he was nearly free of the queen's magic.
Eclipsa threw a bolt behind her hoping to stop the music.
Now I know what I believe inside
Now it's my time
I'll do what I want 'cause this is my life
Here! [Right here!]
Right now! [Right now!]
"NO!"
The queen leapt and dug her talons into the Dark Knight but instead she screamed and scamper away, her hands burnt.
Marco's eyes snapped open.
It bore into the two.
I'll stand my ground
And never back down
I know what I believe inside
I'm awake and I'm alive!
The crescendo rang through the fortress and Marco sent a massive golden shockwave blasting the two back into the railings, they shook their heads and blinked to rid themselves of the blur.
"How?! How did you survive—!"
"What are you, Marco…? Where did you get this power?"
The two Butterflys stared as the golden light faded into a pearl and rested in Marco's heart, his Roman Numeral One shining just as bright before a red hoodie materialized itself over him along with some bits of armor.
Marco looked at them before taking the Traitor's Sword and looked at his reflection, he smirked.
"Ah, now I can use the Elementals without hurting myself, my body is well adjusted for combat and I don't think the Concepts would be a problem either. Now…are you ready to fight a real Dark Knight?"
His voice deeper and more mature, his hair longer but neatly combed to the side, his strong jawline clean, his scar more pronounced and the way the hoodie stretched over his bodice, the two could have sworn his abs would have torn through the fabric, Marco Diaz looked every bit of the word 'sensual' and he was only 33 years old.
Despite his playful words, his brown eyes were stone cold.
The two Butterflys felt the entire fortress shake as Marco spoke,
Moku + Ignis + Gnome + Undine + Automata + Hanabi + Olive
GRAND IMPERIAL FORTRESS!
The entire fortress began to change, the Butterflys could see it take a more durable and classical look akin to what they were used to.
Marco smiled before looking at himself, "I might as well look the part."
Seraph + Automata + Hallow
DIVINE UMBRA ARMOR
Eclipsa and Meteora could only watched in fascinated horror as two indescribably beautiful women appeared slung on Marco's shoulders: one in flowing white robes and the other in black, each one had wings matching their robes and covered Marco and themselves brief before their wings swept out showering them in black and white feathers.
Marco was once again in ornate obsidian armor; he spun his sword and leveled it at them.
"Prepare yourselves…you face Mewni's Strongest Dark Knight."
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Part I
Yeah, this fight scene is long. So long in fact that I thought I might have to skip updating in April.
...but I couldn't make you wait that long so you're getting one this month. Honestly, I've been so busy I couldn't even finish before Season 3 ended. That finale ruined me.
Okay first,
Songs in order of appearance:
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Fire Emblem Fates - Lost in Thoughts All Alone -Nohr-
Skillet- Awake and Alive
*And this may or may not apply to you but earlier there was a mismatch for the songs, I finished 3 in the morning and was dead tired, my grammar is already a crapshoot so forgive me when things slip past me. Mistakes/shit happens.*
The bout is just gonna get even more intense from this point forth, Marco not only has Elementals inside of him but Concepts such as Chronos [Time] and Musica [Music, and they are just as powerful as the Elementals if not more so. One of which is aging Marco to his prime combat age and physique, so he can tolerate the burdens of the Elementals and battle to his fullest. Prima/Prime holds all sorts of goodies and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Ignis [Fire] Undine [Water] Gnome [Earth] Sylph [Wind]
Seraph [Light] Hallow [Dark]
Automata [Metal] Raigu [Lightning]
Moku [Wood] Olive [Oil] Jewel [Crystal] Hanabi [Gunpowder] Yuki [Ice]
Also to get this across, Gnome's freak out is based on actual environmental damage, land = sea air fire are the easiest visually representation of nature in peril. For Gnome seeing a patch of land to never flourish because of Eclipsa's dark magic is tantamount to someone straight up killing a child. So she was understandably enraged, when Elementals are pushed far enough they can enter their Primal Nature Form [when mother nature's at her worst: Earthquakes, Floods, Tornadoes, Wildfires, etc]. Elementals used to be calamities before *spoilers* that's why when Gnome got beyond angry she reverted into a thousand-headed earth dragon.
Okay with sooo many Elementals, Marco has three main way of using them other than stand alone and they are as followed:
Transmute/Fusion : Undine + Slyph = Ice
Purposely making a new element
Augmentation : Undine + Gnome =/= Wood
Using two or more elements without mixing them.
Mud is considered an Augmentation rather than it's own Element.
Amplification : Undine + Hallow/Seraph
Using one element to boost another element's potency
Some Elementals can be made by mixing the four base Elements however some are an extreme or subset of said Element i.e. Earth [Metal Crystal Gems].
I also teased just a bit more of Seraph's past, something I will fully explore in future chapters, especially Marcus [lore damnit!].
Things are righteously heating up and I can't wait to show you Part II.
And I can't wait to hear from all you avid readers. Also, I haven't forgotten to make those shout outs, Part II will have them since Marco still hasn't shown his full hand, Elementals + Concepts + who knows what else.
Le Ciao,
I AM NRG
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