The fighting has gone of for a long time now, both parties are exhausted but while we sustain injuries, we haven't been able to even touch Dan and Elesha, the closest person in our group to even come close to touching them is Athagaraz and Shaosu. We slowly gather up in a circle, covering all the sides and I whisper my plan into their ears, they all nod and raise their weapons, eyes stuck on Dan and Elesha as I cross my legs and close my eyes.
The world around me is suddenly turned into a shade of orange and I concentrate on their body temperatures, since they've been using fire techiques, Dan and Elesha (and me of course) should have a slightly more higher temperature than anyone else. Ah! That's why we haven't been able to lay a finger on them, my suspicions were correct.
"Its only an illusion, they're using the heat that they produced earlier, plus the heat of the atmposphere to create an illusion while they attack from a hidden location." I explain and stand back up to rejoin the battle,
"So we only need to find they're hiding place then, but where..." Basil says...
I drew my sword and looked at them, ready for any movement. I know I'll lose but I didn't want to tell Shaosu or anyone else for that matter but if my gamble works, they'll both perish but ONLY if it works. I stabbed my rune covered sword in the ground and reached into my back pocket and threw some smoke bombs at the pair and they covered their face to protect themselves but to their surprise, the bombs were smoke bombs and they coughed and looked left and right, trying to sense my temperature, little do they know that the smoke is meant to be the same heat as a normal human's body temperature and I clapped my hands and rushed into the smoke.
"Fire techique: Art of the doppelganger!" I yell and mold the flames into a duplicate of myself and sent it at my father while I locked swords with Elesha. My father and Elesha soon leapt out of the smoke and my doppelganger and I, chased them and everyone stood and watched as our swords locked in heated combat. I dodged one of Elesha's swing at my chest and I pretended to swing at her and as she tried to dodge the attack, I changed the direction and of my attack and swung at my father's neck and they were both surprised and they both knew I was going to cut his neck, cleanly through, except it wasn't that simple... there was suddenly a metalic cling and I saw a sword block mine and turned to see another Elesha, blocking my sword with hers, I looked down just to see the original knee me in the stomach and I gapped and collapsed, my doppelganger pushed my father back and caught me and threw me away from the others as he was stabbed by Elesha's sword and disappeared.
"Since when did you teach her the shadow doppelganger technique?" I asked him, while trying to get back on my feet.
"I'm going in." Shaosu muttered and ran towards me but was held back by a hand and he turned to see the person holding him back was Lisa.
"Let him." Lisa simply said and the shock seemed to hit Shaosu hard enough to fuel his furry,
"You! Your his wife, you of all people should want him to live!" Shaosu shouted at her,
"I know he will live." Lisa said and looked at me as I yanked the rune sword out and raised it,
"How can you be so sure?!" Shaosu yelled back at her and she smiled,
"He's been refining a techique ever since he nearly died from the last fight, he'll survive this time." Lisa said and Shaosu relaxed and sheathed his sword and turned back to watch me battle.
Thanks Lisa, I thought and smiled and covered the edge of the sword with flames, I transformed into the Paladin and tapped a rune on the blade and my the rune emitted with purple light and as a response, my feet emitted with purple light as well, from the moment my feet emitted with purple light, the whole world seemed to move in slow motion and I rushed towards them and their eyes seemed to bolt wide open and I slashed at their backs and disabled the rune.
"Tell me, why have you both turned against me?" I inquired and sheathed my sword but retained my paladin form,
"Your strong TC, but your not strong enough." Dan said and they both disappeared and I turned in time to find them both in the air and they slashed at my helmet and I leapt back and concentrated my mana in the palm of my right hand.
I have to use it now, I can't last in this battle for too long, I thought and leaked fire out of my left hand and using the one hand to create a clone and I sent it at the two, as Elesha evaded the onslaught, she rushed at me and I called for Shaosu.
He drew his sword and locked his blade with Elesha's and I told him to hold her off for thirty seconds and he nodded...
"Hey TC, hope you don't mind but I'll end this fight in 15 seconds," Shaosu called out to him. "Wait, don't tell me you're planning to use him are you?" Tc asked. "Yeah...you might wanna stand back...actually, get as far from here into some shelter," Shaosu said. He crossed both his swords and a bolt of lightnign shot into the air. "What did he do that for?" Elesha wondered. "He's going to summon Raiden," Dan stated. The clouds began to darken and thunder and lightning started to be heard. Suddenly a bolt shot down onto the ground and blinded everyone, then the sound of a drum being beaten were heard and the figure of a man was seen from the light. The drum kept beating but when it was finished the light disappeared.
The man before the group was a muscular man with lightning bolt tattoos along his body, his gold hair stood up from the lightning and his electric blue eyes suddenly opened. On his back was a set of twin blades and in his hands was a big drum. "What the-?! Oh Shaosu, you really gotta stop coming in the middle of my sessions man, and i was just getting into my solo too!" Raiden said to him. "Good to see you too," shaosu replied. "Man, looks like Kamon's here as well," Raiden said and looked at TC, clearly seeing Kamon through him. "Raiden," Kamon nodded. "Heard about you and Nao getting hitched, congrats man I'd come myself but I was busy, the other spirits hear you're a pops now too," Raiden said.
"yeah, you guys must have good hearing," Shaosu muttered. "Nah, we know a lot, plus Uriel kinda spied on you two by accidnet, "Raiden said. Nao and Shaosu flushed and looked at the sky, "Uriel, remind me to pound you later!" Shaosu yelled to the sky.
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"Knew Raiden couldn't keep his mouth shut," Uriel muttered
"Anyway, what'cha need me for?" Raiden asked. Shaosu pointed to Dan and Elesha. "I assume you know of my--" Raiden was handed a wine bottle, which he quickly polished off. "Alright, Let me handle this," Raiden said and cracked his knuckles.
"You know your friend over there shouldn't be using that techique." Raiden said, referring to the mana that was being collected into my palm,
"Why?" Shaosu inquired and I grinded my teeth,
"Oh, you don't know what it is? Alright, I have time, I guess I could give you a lesson, that there is a techique that requires pure mana and incrediable timing, which telling by his age, shouldn't be his strong point." Raiden said and I clenched my left hand, resisting the urge to use the techique on him,
"Its almost like your Cero, except its a little mix of the rasengan techique as well." Raiden continued and now was the stage to mold it into a ball and so I did and now a whirling sound came with it.
"Your planning to add an element to that as well?" Raiden asked and pointed to the ball of mana that was sitting on my hand,
"Yep, otherwise it would be too weak." I smiled and in the same time, the ball bursted into flames and Dan flinched as if he realised something, as he evaded one of my clone's swings and he shot a fireball at him and the clone disappeared.
"What's our point, Raiden?" Shaosu asked and Raiden sighed,
"The mana ball techique, combines the power of a Cero but has the size and shape of a rasengan, this techique requires huge control and therefore demands high mana levels, combined with creating it, if it wasn't for the fact that he's in his paladin form, he wouldn't even be able to use it, in fact even in this stat, he's almost out of mana, luckily for you, Eweca is rising." Raiden said and rushed at Elesha and knocked her back before she even knew what had happened,
"Your as fast as usual." Dan said as he shot a firebolt at Raiden, but was easily dodged by leaping up into the air,..
Angelx:Not Story: Fill me in on what's happening, please~
Not story: Since the defeat of the Tiger, almost everyone were married, then Orochi and the Tiger joined forces to create a huge and powerful beast, that beast has since been defeated also and now we're fighting Elesha (TC's formor fellow student) and Dan (TC's father).
Dan and Raiden seemed to be as fast as each other, cause their swords hit each other every time and neither of them looked like winning. Desperate to use the fireball that I held in my palm, I created another doppelganger and this time I split half of the ball for my doppelganger to use and while I charged at Elesha with my sword in my left hand and the mana ball in my right hand, my doppelganger assisted Raiden in the fight with my father.
As I got closer to Elesha, I yelled out a war cry and took a swing at her, which she easily blocked and I pushed the hand with the mana ball into her abdomen and she screamed from the pain being inflicted and collapsed and I looked as she twitched before lying still. I sighed and turned to face my father before I felt a sensation in my head and Elesha's memories flashed at the speed of sound in my head and once the flashes disappeared, I soon realised why they turned against me and I wiped off a tear that was forming on my eye and watched as my doppelganger and Raiden both attacked Dan at the same time and he soon laid still as well and I reverted back to my normal form and looked around as undoused flames and smoke were still left on the battle field and my doppelganger smiled at me and disappeared. I heard footsteps and turned as the group was running towards me except Shaosu who was talking to Raiden who soon disappeared as well and Shaosu joined the circle around me.
"Are you ok?" Shaosu asked and I nodded, ignoring the cuts I had in my arms,
"Is it over? Have you found the answer to why they turned on you?" Basil asked and I nodded as well, again tears started to form and I started walking back to the castle,
"But its not something I want to talk about now." I turned and waited a while before turning my back on them and walked back to the castle...
Not Story: 'Kay thanks~
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Story:
As we headed back to the castle, I felt something nostalgic. Something really sorrowful, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Komodo wrapped an arm around me, which sent some chills up my spine. "Wanna have some fun while we're--" but before Komodo could finish his sentence, I already had whacked his head. "I don't wanna do that until we get married." I replied, simply walking off ahead of him. I heard some giggles coming from the girls, I groaned of annoyance. I honestly didn't get Nao, Rebbecca and Lisa, either they were really mature and knew a lot of things, or they were just being funny. Lyla was fooling around, I think and was being chased by Basil. I sighed, and hurried to TC.
"Hey TC, why do you feel so sad?" I asked, sensing that the enormous amount of feelings of sadness was emanating from him. He sighed, "I said it's not something I want to talk about now." and started walking faster towards the castle. I understand that he's gonna be a father and that he found out why he got betrayed by his own father and former student. Didn't want to add even more stress on him, so I decided not to question him any further.
Once we reached the castle, I stomped straight to my room, leaving a trail of sorrow behind me and I changed into new clothes and hung my sword up on the wall and stopped as the sword reminded me of when Lisa made it for me, how I stumbled into the tent while she was making it and how she hid it away from me and how we "did it" afterwards.
My thoughts soon trailed off to when I first came to the guild and how they caused so much harm to me and then re-joining when the previous leader lost the leadership over the guild, which was when I meet Shaosu and the others. After memories of the guild, my mind wondered to when I first met Lisa and how the numerous times that I nearly died and when we were spying on Basil and I ended up landing on her, upon that memory made me chuckle but then my smile dropped as it wondered to Elesha's memories.
TC was still snoring when Elesha got up, the moon was still shining and the stars were shimmering and as she snuck out of the bed, she crept down the stairs to meet Ronal and he gave a thumbs up, meaning that the area was clear and she ran out of the gate of Bangor, never to be seen again.
Elesha was on her horse for almost a day, non-stop now and still keeping her robe on despite the deathly heat of the dry ground, she only stopped when a guild stone caught her appeal, which was named "Spiritless" and she read the description that was imprinted on the stone:
Hi, to whom may be looking at this guild stone
We, the Spiritless guild are a guild that are dedicated to eradicating the spirits from the world of Errin, Element spirits, sprites, even Soul Stream guardiants, we will kill all of them
Note me, Tiger.
Once Elesha read the stone, she scribbled a note on a piece of paper and wrote "Tiger" on it and gave it to the owl to deliver to him and made camp by the Dragon statue.
My thoughts were disturbed when the door creaked and I turned to see that Lisa walked in and I sighed and signalled her in and she closed the door behind her and sat down with me on the bed and she wrapped her arms around me, but I ignored them.
"She's part of the Spiritless guild." I muttered and Lisa's eyes just shot open, as if I was dying all over again,
"She wanted to kill you because of Kamon?!" Lisa exclaimed and I nodded and wipped the tears that were flowing down my cheek,
"What about your father?" Lisa prompted,
"He did it because he's the one who sealed Kamon in me." I whispered and this time I let the tears drop and Lisa pulled my head closer to her and started patting it...
Athagaraz had taken a detour on the way back to the castle. As he arrived, he sat down and watched the sunset from a point he had known well. The top of the Dunbarton Clock Tower. He sat down and pulled out an ice cream.
As he started to eat, he felt a disturbance in the spirit world and looked. He found a huge gathering of energy over in the castle. He dropped the ice cream and took off to see what it was
Athagaraz landed and started to sprint through the rooms. He turned a left corner, jumped on the wall and sprung down the hall. He grabbed a pole and vaulted over a crowd. He arrived at the room and found it to be TC's coroner room. He looked around to find the source of its power. He opened a cabinet and found the source. The Tiger's heart. TC you idiot, Athagaraz thought as he saw the Tiger's spirit emerged to be flanked by two others.
"So i guess an ass kicking is in order for you?" Athagaraz questioned with an amused smile. "And i believe you thought you had destroyed me?" The Tiger replied. Athagaraz looked closer at the two flanking spirits. "Now, where have i seen you before? Im pretty sure it was recent or i would have... OH CHRIST!!!" Athagaraz exclaimed when he noticed the features more closely. The spirits were Dan and Elesha. "I really need to tell TC to leave organic matter of powerful spirits to dissolve or burn it himself." Athagaraz muttered.
He drew Oathkeeper and pointed towards Dan. "Your son has done more good for us than you think and all you do is try to kill him. You're the one who sealed Kamon In him and you want to correct the mistake. And Elesha, TC was your friend, the person who helped you through your training and your going to pay him back by murdering him. The Father and the Friend both hate the same person, for the same reason. Now he's done all he can to change your mind and you still try to kill him." Athagaraz made his speech with tears welling in his eyes, " Now its your choice: you can change what you've done and help me or make me wipe you out of existance." Dan and Elesha looked at him through the speech, wincing at each point that proved true. At the end, they were looking at the ground and Elesha even had a tear in her eye.
"We'll help you fight him," Dan said, as he pointed to the Tiger, "But all i ask is that you tell TC what we have done, and make him proud to have me as a father." "Done." Athagaraz replied. "We will DESTROY YOU!!" Elesha growled as she and Dan pounced on the Tiger. Athagaraz turned his head to avoid seeing the fight.
Athagaraz looked again to see them all gone, but the energy build up was back. Athagaraz grabbed the heart, ripped in two and as he willed it, his arms turned in to lava rock. The heart almost seemed to struggle against his grip. The heart and energy started lose force and when the force was completely stopped, Athagaraz's arms turned back to normal and he started to run back to the Clock Tower.
Athagaraz had another ice cream and continued watching the sunset. He looked to where the way up was and saw an old friend. "Sit down. I was just thinking about what to do next?" "You mean you don't remember?" "Remember what?" "Where you got the Oathkeeper or why you knew the exact day you would need to be back." "You mean its time to go back?" "Alone, ecept for me." "Lets go then.....Riku."
After my so called sulking was over, the next day we decided to take a walk around the forest to take my mind off everything and it worked more than I expected and enjoyed being company to Lisa until we both saw a shadow on the grassy land and looked up to find Athagaraz flying down towards us and we ran to him.
"What's up?" I said as his wings crawled behind his back and folded back,
"You know, keeping the organic material of a powerful spirit is dangerous, if it wasn't for me, the Tiger, Dan and Elesha's spirit would be alive and wondering around, searching until your body is incinerated." Athagaraz explained and I sighed and Lisa looked at me as I rubbed my forehead.
"It looks like the seal broke early." I said as I sighed again,
"You already knew?" Athagaraz asked me as if he didn't hear me,
"Of course I did, I keep a seal on during the day and I maintain the barrier during the night while I'm sleeping." I explained,
"Its no wonder your always tired," Lisa muttered as Athagaraz nodded and took flight again...
[Not Story: I'm going back to third-person view. Again.]
Karikan felt a little bit tired, she wanted to be with Komodo forever and ever. She thought of Nao and Lisa being pregnant, she shuddered at the thought. Karikan wondered when Komodo was going to propose to her, maybe secretly? Probably in place where everyone sees and they go, "Aww!" She bored as she went outside to get a good gulp of fresh air. "Ah, so peaceful... yet so... dull." Karikan sighed as she took a stroll outside. She missed playing Lyla, it seemed that she was too busy making fun out of Basil and the others.
"Hey there, what's up?" Karikan turned to see Komodo by her side, "Is there anything wrong?" he asked, putting an arm around her. Karikan sighed, "I'm bored, but at least my curse is over. I wonder how Faolan is doing." The said guardian's voice rang in her head, Good afternoon, Mistress Karikan, did you miss me? Faolan formed in front of the couple and bowed respectfully to Karikan and then Komodo. Karikan tugged from Komodo's arm and ran to the wolf spirit, "I did!" and threw her arms around the Stone Horse Keeper's neck. Komodo smiled at the reunion, then Karikan let go of Faolan and returned to her boyfriend's side. "Have you seen Coco, too?"
Faolan nodded, he formed a dark sphere before them and an image was project within the dark sphere. Karikan's keen eyes saw what Faolan was showing them, her former pet, Coco. The Thunderbird was with another, between them were two little baby birds. Karikan nearly choked up at the wonderful scene of Coco's loving family. "Coco, I miss you." the elf said, with almost tears. Komodo glanced at her, "You okay?" Karikan nodded and wiped the tears from her eyes. "Coco's got a wonderful husband and has two little children." Faolan retrieved the dark sphere, the mana seeping into his flesh. "I also found out that... that Laela is still alive." Faolan said.
Karikan's eyes widened, "What?!"
"They strolled through the forest where they soon found a cave, which lead to how I was born in a cave, they called that area "The Forgotten Land"" Terry concluded and everyone seemed to still be entranced by the story and soon started asking numerous questions, which I found hard to answer all at once like, wasn't it hard on your mother to give birth in a cave and all sorts of things which I found rather disturbing to answer and flagged them but flagging the questions seemed to make them harder, although, their adventures in the cave is another story.
After another wonderful day of telling them the tales of my now sick parents, I just remembered that I needed to get the grocery for them and so I chucked the coins up and down in my hand as I strolled to the market.
As I returned home, my parents smiled and called for me and I smiled back as I unpacked the groceries.
"Have you been telling them stories again Terry?" My father asked and I didn't reply and continued unpacking the groceries,
"You have to stop telling them stories." My dad groaned,
"But everyone loves them and telling them!" I exclaimed and this time, both of them started chuckling, which surprised me, but I couldn't help but join in with the laughter...
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"I'm sorry I didn't tell you about that I kept the Tiger's heart." I said before I realized that we'd walked into a cave and that Lisa wasn't with me anymore, but she was lying a couple of steps behind me and she seemed to be in pain, I lit a flame and laid it on the ground as I examined her source of the pain,
"The babies coming." Lisa said while trying to bear the pain and I could see beads of sweat rolling down and I took hold of her hand as I instructed her through taking breaths.
"I'll go and get the others." I said, about to release my grip on her hand but she held on tighter and I couldn't let go,
"Stay with me, I don't want to be alone." Lisa moaned and reluctantly I stayed with her...
