Holly glanced up, right eye wide and left half shut. Basilisx’s head and attention followed. Others looked up as the Dragon Azala let out a mighty roar, one that filled the entire area below on the battle field. Holly grinned at the sight, moving left as Basilisx swung his sword down at her.
Vulper glanced up while Zoey and Mark shot around him. Drake and Scott stood before him. Samantha stood ahead of them, huffing with twin sword. Many dead Dark Wulfn lay around them, along with many Undead. The wing crashed not far off, slamming into the forest as it had begun breaking apart into streams of black mist.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1vgWzxsmw
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“You got him!” Sephiroth called.
“Yeah but now he’s on guard,” she replied.
Azala stood back up in front of her, still holding onto his shoulder. The dragon body itself did not falter, staying in the air on course atop streams of darkness itself. The wounds atop the body’s back had begun to close, steam exiting them as they closed up bit by bit. Azala’s teeth gritted as the fire in his eyes erupted.
Threads of darkness had begun to move out of the broken off wing’s place, slowly but surely weaving together with a coating of darkness following behind. The wing was beginning to reconstruct itself via Dark Energy. All the while Azala’s body quivered.
“That hit definitely did damage. His two bodies are definitely connected. If it’s how I think it is, he can only focus on one body at a time, not the other. If he’s kept dancing and unsure of our attack plan, we’ll have this won!”
“Gyah- god damn you Elise!” Azala growled as he stood firm, his arm leaving his shoulder.
Black aura erupted forth from his body like a flame, his hair turning pitch black and lengthening. His teeth sharpened, his bulk increasing by a small percentage. His eyes bled pink, eyes which rotated a whole three-sixty. He stomped forward, power amassing at his right hand.
Darkness spread forth into a lengthened shape. As it did so, the ax handle sent flying from his hand prior flew on back straight into the darkness. It, too, turned black with the handle lengthening. The top flashed silver as a blade began to protrude.
Elise stepped back, Sephiroth raised. Before her the broken ax handle had lengthened by fifty percent, and the blade emerging had shot outwards with a curve. Thick, a mix of reds and golds and silvers with streams of darkness surging around it. She gulped on air, eyes sharpened, expression tainted, face dead shot forward.
Azala slammed the butt of the weapon down, darkness exploding away from it to reveal it reborn as a massive scythe. The blade shattered, another form swelling in place. The weapon’s head became a cross of a scythe and an ax, rather long and sharp yet thick. She took a step back, her leg a tad shaken, “Oh, that’s not good.”
Azala raised the weapon and launched ahead, weapon raised up ready to swing.
“Dodge it!” Sephiroth barked.
Her head tilted right, her legs giving out, her torso flying aside as just above the blade of Azala’s weapon flew. A complete swing and a missed slash which left Elise at Azala’s feet with Sephiroth swinging up.
CLANG
The handle of Azala’s weapon blocked the thrust, Sephiroth’s blade stuck in yet not going through. Her eyes widened.
THWACK
“Gyuh-!?”
Elise flew back and crashed, Sephiroth clanging to her right. The blade flew, skidding down the side of the dragon and right off. Her head turned, eyes big, “No!”
Azala lowered his left foot, grinning.447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKXJs2q4dt
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Wesley and Holly shot back to back, black wolves and beasts all around them. The form growled and the latter huffed. Her black hair shifted, her eyes dancing behind, “How many?”
“Seventy-eight.”
“Ha, I’m at eighty-five.”
“This isn’t a game, these things keep getting back up no matter how many times we put them down!”
Basilisx slammed down in front of Holly, his bulky armor glowing with darkness. He stood a good half meter. His bulk raised up with twin swords, both which were then sent slamming down. Holly shot backwards while Wesley shot off to the right. The latter slammed both hands into the ground as Dark Wolves reared up on him.
Stone Columns broke from the ground and impacted the wolves in their jaws, enough force behind the blows to send them flying off tumbling away. They oozed black, limbs and head contracting into the torso slowly like pooling mud. Only when they pooled entirely did they reemerge, paws to the ground and head forward. Wesley growled, looking as they all switched from being on their sides to standing by simply morphing.
As Wesley reacted to the wolves, Holly continued to dance with Basilisx. Streams of white light left her hands and fired off at the bulky warrior, striking the armor only to do nothing. Her slight smile turned to a frown, “Damn, his armor is-”
“Alchemy reinforced. Your simple energy blasts won’t be enough to rip this off me,” he laughed with an echoing voice.
Clanking forward with swords raising once more, his eyes began to glow crimson red as dark mists steamed out of the armor.
“Nyahahahahaha!” came laughter from beyond their fight.
Far off, Alice stood before Chino, the former of whom held Dark Energy around her while the latter stood wild. Chino’s eyes danced, purples in place of whites, corneas of dirty yellow, and pupils of silver. Young as she did appear, her power unseen, it clashed against that of Alice with winds scattering.
Alice huffed, “Dammit.”
Alongside them ran Dustin with Milly and David following close behind in their transformed states. Dustin smirked as he ran along, the trio passing by another showdown. Winston’s group faced off against the likes of Vulper, Zoey, and the rest of their crew. Dark Wolves moved around them, along with many Undead infused with the darkness of Azala.
Vulper glanced up to the dragon form of Azala which continued to hover. His mouth flapped, “Come on now Elise, you have to defeat him or we’re all going to die.”447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9EO5xTtfKS
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Azala’s weapon slammed down, the end portion of his weapon against the back of his Dragon Body. Elise took a step back, her arms raised as Azala began to approach. His head tilted off to the side as his grinning teeth parted, “I must say you’ve come far my false daughter. And yet, like all things, you will fold when faced against a force you can not possibly hope to defeat.”
“If all things fold then what does that mean for you?” she retorted.
Azala’s weapon rose, turning so that the blade became horizontal, “You know what? That’s fair. Unfortunately you will not live to see the day! Now, die with the rest of your pathetic trash comrades!”
He shot high into the air and immediately rose the weapon. He swung forward just over Elise’s head, the latter of whom looked up with fierce eyes.
CLANG
“W-what?!” Azala croaked.
Elise stood with both arms up glowing white, hands coated white and clasped together on the sides of the weapon’s blade. Her legs bent, her face curled, rage flooding her expression as her body quivered. Azala swapped from one handed to two handed without a moment’s hesitation. His legs bent as well with a bulk of force raining down on Elise.
“Geh- how is it that you can resist me, for so damn long!?” he roared.
“Because it is my mission to stop you fa- Azala. You think life is just something just granted without a purpose, you think lives are something you can just throw around and use,” she began as in her head images began to flood.
Holly, Britt, Mark, Zoey.
“You think life is something you can discard without a second thought, that people are disposable,” she growled.
David, Milly, Vulper
“Life is something precious, something people only get once. You think the lives of others are worthless until they sacrifice themselves furthering you and your own self-interest agendas.”
Sacho, Elen, Thomas, Destiny.
Her teeth gritted as Light Energy exploded around her, streaming out as white lightning. Azala’s eyes inflated, his hardened expression of fire curving back into a subdued one. Elise’s hold on Azala’s weapon intensified, the entire weapon shaking.
“Someone like you has no right, no right to abuse the life given to others. Someone like you has no right to judge others when you yourself can not string together an act of compassion or understanding. Something like you, so evil and vile, has no right to take the freedoms of those who’ve given their all for the sake of others. Something like you, has absolutely no damn power over the rest of us!”
CRACKLE
SHATTER
Azala stumbled back with his eyes fully open as the blade snapped with a twist of Elise’s arms. A huge portion the size of his head lay in her palms. Her feet spun, twisting right around Azala’s. He fell backwards, his mouth open, “Gyuh-?!”
“So just stop-”
She stood straight back up and threw both arms forward, a huge blast of Light Energy sent off leaving her hands and arms sending that blade piece forward.
“HRGHYUAH-!!!”
“Stop trying to take what should never be taken- OUR SPIRITS!”
His eyes shook as he looked ahead, eyes set on Elise’s own face. Her fierce eyes, her twisted mouth, her streaming tears, her raging words. The blade slammed straight through Azala’s torso and straight out of his back, ripping right through everything in his chest. Blood flew out, quickly engulfed by the Light Energy that followed behind the blade.
The energy ripped through Azala’s chest wound straight out the opening in his back, blowing out insides which quickly vaporized in the intense burst of energy. Blood flew from his mouth and nose, his eyes blood shot. His weapon flew from his hands and clanged along the side of the dragon.
The dragon howled out with its head curling back, its body shattering around its chest. A mighty hole opened up as an explosion ripped its way through, likewise right straight up through the back.
Below on the battle field many eyes shifted as all movements came to a hault. Dark Wolves howled out along with the howl of the dragon, their bodies bubbling. The Undead continued to move though their movements slowed considerably as their own darkness began to bubble. Soon the wolves fell, liquifying one by one, drenching the battlefield in black waters. The same darkness pooled out of the Undead.
Chino and Basilisx both looked up with eyes visibly widened and shaken. Dustin shot a look of disgust upwards. Holly and Wesley both looked up in confusion. David and Milly glanced up with calm expressions. Zoey and her entire crew looked up calm at first before unleashing smiles and laughs.
Sora and Caldori stood alongside Belama, all looking up as the hole opened up in the dragon. Vulper stood a few meters away with shaken eyes and a smile, “She did it-”447Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zNfDZ8uLX
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The Light Energy faded from Elise’s body, all of it having been spent. Azala flew back with some blood flying from the burnt hole in his chest, much still flying from his mouth and nose. His arms, limp as can be, flopped in front of him as he fell back. The warrior crashed, his back to the back of the dragon with a mighty thud.
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