"What the hell?" Drake asked, staring up at the Christina. "Why the hell...What?"
"Ha!" Michael said. "You look seriously surprised, bud! Don't worry though. Back up has officially arrived!"
"How did you guys know we needed help?" Drake asked. "And how many people came?"
"Every team from the Games came to help." Keita said, crossing his arms. "Nashi called us and said there was a brawl going down. Nobody even needed to be convinced." Drake smiled at this and looked back up at the Christina as it dropped more bombs down on the campsite.
"Wow..." He said. "You guys are a serious save, you know that? Especially you, Michael. You make all these people useless."
"I kinda want to eat sparingly." Michael said. "But yeah, I do. Don't worry, we're going to knock these guys out of here."
"Well of course." Drake replied. "Eat too much and it won't be good for you."
"Yeah, exactly." Michael replied. "But don't worry, we got your back. Drake nodded.
"So, you've got even more backup?" Drake looked over as Elizabeth crawled back to her feet, pretty banged up from Keita's attack. "Who are you two?"
"Name's Michael." Michael replied. "This is Keita. We're from Sabertooth."
"Sabertooth, huh?" She asked. "Another guild. Why're you here?"
"You attacked our friends." Keita replied. "I think that's reason enough to come."
"Especially because you put Damien in a hospital bed." Michael said, face growing darker. "That wouldn't happen to have been your fault, would it?"
"No." Elizabeth replied. "That was probably Quinn. You're looking for the blonde haired loudmouth."
"That ring a bell?" Keita asked Drake, who nodded.
"Yeah." He said. "Steph took him on."
"I suppose that's fair." Michael said. "Now boys, should we take this girl on?"
"All three of you, huh?" Elizabeth asked. "Looks like the tables have turned, Drake."
"They sure have." He agreed. "And in may favor to boot."
"I wouldn't go that far." Elizabeth replied. Drake made a face at this.
"And what's that suppose to mean?" He asked. Elizabeth tilted her head to the side.
"I'm still not going to lose."
Elise watched the Christina drop bombs on the battlefield with a smile. She didn't know how, or why, but it looked like they had a little bit of backup.
"Elise!" Elise turned to find Ultear running towards her. "Why's the Christina here?! Do you know what's going on?"
"No idea!" She replied. "But who cares? We've got some serious firepower on our side now!" Ultear smiled at this.
"Yeah, we sure do."
"Where's Gin?" Elise asked.
"He should be on his way back to the guild hall." She said. "I got him out, not to worry."
"That's good." Elise replied. "Glad you're here. I have a little something to deal with." As if on cue, the hunters who'd been thrown around by the bombing stood and surrounded the girls again.
"Ah, I can see that." Ultear said. "Shall we?"
"Yeah, I guess." Elise said, her hands turning into a club and blade. Ultear prepared herself with whips of water, and together they tensed as Hunters came at them from every angle.
That was, of course, until someone else got to them first. Elise watched as sand whipped around a bunch of the hunters and threw them all over, and more hunters got all wrapped up by a plant. The hunters around them were getting decimated by someone, but Ultear couldn't tell who.
"What the hell is?" Abigail asked from farther away. "Whatever. I'll deal with this myself." Elise turned to the woman to see her sending a blast of holy light at them, a huge one at that.
"Ul, we need a shield!" Elise shouted.
"I'm on it!" Ultear replied. Ultear moved to block the attack, but something else beat her to it.
A card beat her to it.
Elise watched as a single card floated in front of the blast and blocked it completely. It seemed to be emitting some kind of force field that didn't allow the blast to do any further. Once the blast died away, the card simply fell to the ground and laid motionless.
"Hello ladies!" Elise made a face and turned around. Once she had, she smiled.
Reyna, along with the whole of Quatro Cerberus' GMG team, stood there.
"Reyna!" Ultear said happily." Reyna laughed.
"We've come to join the party." She announced. "Boys, could you do me and the girls here and favor and fend off this woman's soldiers?"
"Happily." Akihiro said, a wolfish grin on his face.
"We'll hold them off." Ryo said, cracking his knuckles. "Girls, take out that woman giving us a dirty look." Elise turned back to see Abigail was indeed looking pretty miffed at the whole situation. As the boys from Quatro Cerberus moved and engaged the hunters, Reyna stood side by side with Elise and Ultear as Abigail flipped her hair over her shoulder.
"This is ridiculous." She said. "Do you all really think you stand a chance?"
"Don't get cocky." Reyna replied, smirking. "We aren't anything to fool around with."
"That right?" Abigail asked. "Why don't you show me?"
Simon got his breather when the hunters surrounding him got caught up in watching the attacks going on somewhere else. Using this distraction to his advantage, He requipped into his Black Wing Armor and took out a lot of them that got to close, and flew off to get away. Finally given a moment, Simon looked up and made a confused face.
"What the hell?" He asked. "Where did the Christina come from?"
"You know what that is?" Simon turned to find Tristan glaring at him. "It's bombing the campsite and making a huge nuisance out of itself."
"It's a friendly airship." Simon replied. "Well, at least to me anyway. You're probably in trouble if it's showed up here."
"That right?" Tristan asked. "Doesn't matter to me. I can't lose."
"Quite the pompous attitude you got." Simon said. Tristan smirked and another wave of holy blasts came towards Simon, who prepped to dodge it as usual.
However, he really didn't have to as the blasts disappeared from in front of him and appeared behind Tristan.
"Gah!" Tristan shouted out as his own attack struck him from behind, causing a small explosion. "What the hell did you do, kid?! How did you do that?!"
"I didn't do anything." Simon replied. "Though if I had to guess..." Simon watched as Tristan burst out of the smoke and attacked him again, and once more the attacks roared towards Simon.
This time though, they just veered into the dirt in front of him. This only seemed to irritate Tristan even further."
"What the fuck?!" He shouted angrily. "Who's-!"
"Damn, you're a mouthy one." A female voice called out. "Quiet down, your yelling is annoying me." Before Tristan could respond, he was slammed down into the ground by an unseen force. Simon smiled at this.
"Nice to see you again." He said, watching as the black haired girl with the black leather jacket wandered out into the open.
"Good to see you to, Simon." Nami said, smiling. "I figured you might need a hand."
"Anyone else here?" Simon asked.
"Mostly everyone." She replied. "Juno came with me. Right Juju?"
"Don't call me Juju." Juno muttered as she too walked up, wearing dark jeans and a blue shirt. "I hate that nickname."
"That's why I use it." Nami replied simply, making the girl roll her eyes. As the two of them walked up, Simon made a face.
"You okay Juno?" He asked, making her frown questioningly. "You look like you haven't slept in a while." Juno frowned even deeper and looked away.
"It's nothing." She replied. "I'm just having trouble sleeping recently."
"Oh, sorry to hear that."
"I'm fine." Simon nodded, but his spine tingled as he did so. e weaved away from the blasts that came from Tristan, who was still on his ass on the ground.
"Hate to break up your little catch up." He growled, slowly managing to get to his feet. "But I'd rather not sit here and listen to you three talk. We gonna do this?"
"You really want to fight all three of us?" Juno asked. "We aren't pushovers."
"I don't give a damn." He replied. "I'll just outlast you. Then you're nothing."
"And how do you plan on doing that?" Nami asked. "It's a three on one." Tristan grinned darkly.
"I can't lose, idiot." He replied.
"Roar of the White Dragon!"
"Shadow Dragon Claw!"
"Poison Dragon Spiral Jaw!" The force from Michael's roar pushed Elizabeth back into Keita, who slashed her right towards Drake, who then coated his legs in poison and kicked her back into the dirt. She stood and did her best to send out bursts of magic to interrupt their attack. Keita just disappeared into the ground, while Michael and Drake both ran around her attacks and managed to reach through it all.
"White Dragon Talon!" Michael shouted. His fist was coated in a sharpened bit of light, which he swung at Elizabeth. The woman did her best to dodge it all, but she took a couple of decent hits from it. She did a technique similar to Michael and swung at him as well, but Michael simply caught her hand and sucked up the light around her hand, making her look confused.
"So you're all Dragon Slayers." She surmised as Michael backed up.
"Nice observation!" Michael replied. "So basically none of your attacks are gonna do jack shit, sweetheart!" Drake tagged himself in as Michael backed up and swung at the girl as well, but he didn't bother using poison. If she had magic capable of curing herself, there was no point in trying to poison her anyway. A good punch to her midsection forced her back, and this was when Keita came up out of the ground and roundhouse kicked her, forcing her back down into the dirt.
"That's interesting." She said. "So you're like Neptu, in a sense."
"He's a Dragon Slayer?" Drake asked.
"Not exactly." She replied. "But what isn't important. Right now, all you three need to focus on is me."
"I think you should take this a little more seriously." Keita said. "Because right now you're kinda treating this like a joke."
"It might as well be one." Elizabeth replied. "Like I said, you three can't beat me." With this, Elizabeth brought her hands together, and she began to glow. At first Drake prepared himself for an attack, but it became clear that wasn't what she was doing.
"What is that?" Keita asked.
"Bodily Enchant Number 10: Armor." Elizabeth said. "Bodily Enchant Number 14: Damage Decrease. Bodily Enchant Number 30: Physical Damage Increase." Drake watched as the holy light morphed around Elizabeth, and formed what looked to be a set of armor around her body, before it faded away, leaving only an imprint. It then formed around her arms and legs, making them glow faintly once the spell died away. Once she was done, she stretched and smiled.
"Been a while since I did that." She said. "Feels good."
"What exactly did you just do?" Drake asked.
"Why don't you come and find out?" Elizabeth asked. Drake knew something was up, but they still needed to beat her. Running ahead of Michael and Keita, Drake coated his fist in poison, and reared it back to strike Elizabeth.
Drake was a little taken aback when his fist didn't do anything when it hit her.
He wasn't imagining anything, he could see that his fist had made contact with her skin, but nothing happened.
"What the hell?" He asked. "What did you do?"
"Like I said." Elizabeth replied, rearing her own fist back. "I primarily use enchants." And with this, she swung.
Drake tried to block it, but even with that he felt a gigantic force push against him. He flew backwards, but soon he felt two pairs of hands grab him and slow him down.
"What the hell was that?" Michael asked.
"Who knows." Keita said. "But if her magic is primarily enchantments, she probably did something to herself."
"That sounds about right." Drake muttered, his whole body aching from the force that had pushed him backwards. "But whatever it was, It worked.
Steph had already seen the Christina coming down, so she assumed that someone had called for backup.
That, however, wasn't her main concern at the moment.
Steph had finally tracked down Quinn, who had run off from her the moment he'd had a chance. She stared at him carefully, making sure he didn't run off again.
"Well, you caught me." he said. "Now what?"
"Now what?" She asked. "Now, I pay you back for what you did to my brother, you piece of shit."
"You're brother?" He asked. "Ah, so you're the demons sister. I see. That's cool I guess. So I suppose you're mad at me."
"You suppose?" Steph demanded. "Yeah, I am mad. You dam near killed my brother, asshole. Doing the same to you is the least I can do."
"I see." he replied. "Well, if that's what you want to do then have a go at it."
"Gladly." With this, Steph coated herself in electricity and shot at Quinn, tackling him with it. She reared back as he formed his swords and swung at her, and she made sure to keep a wide berth around them. Quinn for the most part just kept away from her, which made her run after him through the ruined campsite.
"Almost had me!" he joked as a bolt of lightning soared past his head.
"Stop moving!" Steph shouted angrily, throwing out more bolts in an attempt to hit him. Quinn stopped dead in his tracks, and Steph did so as well, watching him.
"You seem tense." He said.
"No, really?" She asked angrily. "Couldn't imagine why?" Quinn shrugged.
"I don't know." he replied. "But I suppose this is a good time to tell you that you won't be able to win."
"And why do you say that?" She demanded. "Gin beat you back when you attacked us."
"In a manner of speaking." Quinn replied. "But he didn't, he only slowed me down."
"...Is that right?" Steph made a face. Who'd said that? Before she had a chance to ask, the ground beneath her began to shake violently.
"What the hell?" Quinn asked. "What're you doing, girl?"
"Nothing." Steph replied weakly. "I'm just as confused as you are..." As Steph did her best to keep her balance, she sensed a presence. Slowly, turning, Steph's eyes widened.
Bella stood there, a black aura coming off of her form. She looked up, and and Steph noted her blue eyes were rimmed with tears.
"You." She hissed. "You hurt Damien, didn't you?"
Chapter 251: The Succubus