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"Yes!" Lance said, his voice firm.
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(Who's Kaira?)Lance sighed and continued to walk forward, lagging behind Kaira somewhat due to still being a bit fatigued.
"At least that means we've cleared half of them already," Lance said.
"Yeah, hopefully-" Kiara gripped her stomach a bit.Lance sighed and continued to walk forward, lagging behind Kiara somewhat due to still being a bit fatigued.
"At least that means we've cleared half of them already," Lance said.
Lance laughed lightheartedly."Yeah, hopefully-" Kiara gripped her stomach a bit.
"Man, ******* contractions..." She thought to herself, "This kid is killin' me, I say!" Kiara said jokingly.
"Don't jinx it now!" Kiara said jokingly before she felt an extreme chill run down her spine, "A-Ah... What the hell?" She thought to herself, "Is something happening on the outside?" She thought.Lance laughed lightheartedly.
"It's unfortunate that you had to experience such trials while carrying a child. Let's hope these next two trials aren't too difficult."
The four of them had formulated a strategy telepathically as Glacies rambled on. Zonolo's flaming tattoos appeared, and Yamato launched a combined blast of fire and electricity toward her, as Mira teleported himself and Boros behind her. Boros attempted to kick her in the back of the neck to stun her as Mira constructed chains of magic that would siphon her strength, allowing her to be caught by the blast."Where'd the girl you didn't like go?" Yamato asked.
"I dunno... But I'm not gonna wait here forever for her..." Zonolo said, "We're going back to Dragon's Nest, with or without her. We'll come back and tell her 'no hard feelings, but you flaked on us'. I want to get to the bottom of those ice soldiers ASAP..."
"Are you sure you don't want to wait for her?" Mira asked.
"Look, I appreciate that she recognizes that she was wrong for what she did, and I appreciate her trying to help, but the sooner we check this out, the sooner we'll be able to get an idea of who or what we're dealing with, what it wants, yadda-yadda-yadda..." Zonolo said, "So, I say we leave for Dragon's Nest again..."
"Very well," Boros said, "To Dragon's Nest, then..."
Mira opened a portal to the location, in similar fashion to what Masayoshi or Towa would do. There, they arrived at Dragon's Nest. In the past. Time was stopped, giving them plenty of opportunity to investigate. Looking at the location, they fanned out and observed a plethora of different areas.
"Hey! Over here!" Yamato called to the others, noticing where ice was beginning to form into the soldiers, "I found them..."
"Nice!" Zonolo said, "Now, let's see what we're dealing with..."
Mira observed the ice, analyzing it and getting a read on it.
"This is real ice, or at least, something synthetically similar to ice," Mira said, "Given that other inhabitants haven't heard of such a phenomenon, and the fact that the material is in fact tangible and physical in nature, I don't believe this is an illusion..."
"So it's something being constructed... but by who? Or what?" Zonolo said, "We should fan out and keep looking..."
"That won't be necessary..." An unfamiliar voice spoke. The lot of them all arrived to face the source of this voice, and it was a woman dressed in white, with blue hair.
"I was wondering how long it'd take you to find me..." She said, "But, now that you're all here, I suppose I can see how long you all can entertain me before I decide to get serious and grind you all under my heel like the insignificant ants you are..."
"That was a mouthful..." Zonolo said, "Why'd you make the ice soldiers? To test us to see if we were strong enough for this sick game of yours?"
Glacies, the woman in white, merely laughed in response.
"Are you seriously talking like I owe you answers?!" She laughed, "But I'll humor you... IF you four insects can entertain me... Go on! Give me a reason not to stomp your pathetic lives into paste!"
"My apologize!" Lance said lightheartedly, before being jolted to attention. he glanced around uneasily, unsure what was going on."Don't jinx it now!" Kiara said jokingly before she felt an extreme chill run down her spine, "A-Ah... What the hell?" She thought to herself, "Is something happening on the outside?" She thought.
"I guess..." Kiara said, covering her fists in the armor of Akari, preparing for combat, feeling a rumbling under her feet. "Shit- Brace for impact!" She yelled out."My apologize!" Lance said lightheartedly, before being jolted to attention. he glanced around uneasily, unsure what was going on.
"Kiara....do you feel something...odd?" Lance said. he started breaking into a cold sweat as he looked around carefully, dagger appearing in his hand.
"Damn" Lance cursed. he knew he couldn't defeat the wolf in his fatigued state. Lance turned himself into smoke, and attempted to weave his body around the wolf, causing it to pass through him if successful."I guess..." Kiara said, covering her fists in the armor of Akari, preparing for combat, feeling a rumbling under her feet. "Shit- Brace for impact!" She yelled out.
The giant wolf from earlier burst through the very fabric of space, creating a large portal as it dashed towards the group.
"What do you mean she doesn't exist?" Zonolo asked.The four of them had formulated a strategy telepathically as Glacies rambled on. Zonolo's flaming tattoos appeared, and Yamato launched a combined blast of fire and electricity toward her, as Mira teleported himself and Boros behind her. Boros attempted to kick her in the back of the neck to stun her as Mira constructed chains of magic that would siphon her strength, allowing her to be caught by the blast.
"That can't be right..." Mira said, feeling no energy being siphoned from Glacies. Additionally, as the dust settled, she stood there, bored and unharmed. She moved only slightly, shattering the chains Mira made to hold her. She then casually flicked her fingers, dragging Boros and Mira across and slamming them forcefully through the blast Zonolo and Yamato fired into their allies.
"Wow, at this rate, you'll be splotches under my boot in no time!" Glacies taunted, "No full power from you guys? Do you want to be crushed or something?!"
"You want our full power?" Zonolo asked.
"Fine by us!" Yamato said, transforming as her allies followed suit. Yamato swung her kanabo at full strength, aiming toward Glacies' head. However, she merely turned around and brushed her hair back, and the force of her hair touching the kanabo propelled Yamato backward as the gusts of air slashed all over her body. Mira attempted to assess the situation, looking through all possible timelines to find the best method of attack. Except, she wasn't there. In any of them. So, Mira created duplicates, merging with them to increase his power. He charged toward her at full speed, only for his attack to be intercepted with a finger. Pointing downward, Mira felt a massive force push him to the ground and restrain him, all before icicles of Glacies' creation came, impaling him in various locations. To Boros, who rushed in after Mira, she merely snapped her fingers, countering all of his attacks with a force that overwhelmed him and sent him flying back.
Zonolo, using his Rey Del Dolor form in tandem with his flaming tattoos, dropping down from the sky to deliver a powerful axe kick toward Glacies' head. She takes it, but doesn't even flinch.
"Is that your attempt at a stomp?" Glacies laughed, "Let me show you how it's done..."
She grabbed his ankle, slamming him down on the ground in front of her before crossing her arms and stomping down on his spine. He went from Dragon's Nest all the way down to a deep crater his landing made in Muspelheim. Thankfully, Zonolo didn't take any damage from the strike. Soaring back up, he regrouped with his team, all of which who are injured by Glacies.
"At this rate, you insects will be crushed under my feet in no time!"
The four made futile attempts to fight Glacies. However, she merely pointed downward, generating a force with that mere motion so great that none of them could escape from it.
"Pathetic... Even with your abilities to grow stronger, you couldn't even match me at all... So, it's time to put you insects in your place!"
One by one, she fulfilled her promise. Yamato, Boros, and Mira were all eradicated by her. Then, she got to Zonolo, stomping down on him, she attempted to go four for four in this regard. However, that didn't appear as though it was the case.
"Hmmm... that ability of yours, huh?" Glacies said, "No matter, I've got all day, and I'll keep it up until you end up just like them, too!"
And she did. Countless attempts, all of which only made Zonolo more angry, and Glacies more frustrated at her inability to bypass his Vagabond's Burden.
"Why. Won't. You. Just. Die?!" Glacies yelled between strikes. However, as she was striking something began to happen. The bodies of Zonolo's allies reformed. He took the pain responsible for their death, as well as the pain Glacies intended to induce from the strikes and turned it into power...
Then, Zonolo began to rise. With his forcefield creation, he created barriers that would protect his allies from the force Glacies emitted, allowing them to stay in the fight.
"Honestly, because I don't want to..." Zonolo answered.
"Huh, I guess you're all not as moronic as I gave you credit for..." Glacies said, "But then again, you're still challenging me. I suppose I'll let you go this time... You'll be something fun to kill boredom with for me..."
"You're not going anywhere!" Yamato said, rushing at Glacies alongside Zonolo and swinging strikes in tandem at her. However, even inspite of the massive increase in power from the absorbed damage and the strength accumulated as they fought, Glacies still was nowhere near taking them seriously.
"Yes I am. If you're so eager to be demolished again, feel free to call me! I'll hear you..." Glacies said with a smirk, "Ta-ta, insects!"
And with that, she disappeared from sight.
"Mira, who was that?" Zonolo asked.
"Someone who doesn't exist here..." Mira answered.
The beast thrashed around with unimaginable speed, its sheer size, and power making whether or not it could distinguish between real and fake an irrelevant detail, cause it hit all the illusions with its wind, including Lance, the dagger grazing it and producing a huge gash on its body which it seemed to ignore."Name...go down...in history?" Lance thought.
despite the odds, despite his injuries...the man smiled.
"This is my chance....my chance to gain the glory I was looking for!" He thought, picking himself up off the wall. but He needed a plan. something that would allow him to defeat such a mighty foe.
testing the beast's senses, Lance began to surround it with hundreds of illusionary copies of himself and Kiara, testing to see if it could see through his illusions. at the same time, he would teleport behind the beast. and attempt to toss another dagger while in its blind spot.
Lance was once again flung backward, just barely managing to to stop himself from smashing against the wall once more.The beast thrashed around with unimaginable speed, its sheer size, and power making whether or not it could distinguish between real and fake an irrelevant detail, cause it hit all the illusions with its wind, including Lance, the dagger grazing it and producing a huge gash on its body which it seemed to ignore.
"What the hell...?"
Kiara could feel her flames freezing due to the icy winds that the giant wolf produced, "There goes my gimmick!" She said, doing a little 4th wall break.
(mmmm, I wonder what context I can put this into to make it sound awful...)"It's too big!" Lance realized.
(I'm not sorry lol)"It's too big!" Lance realized as he looked at Metatron's...
The enormous wolf didn't even flinch as it violently shook its body, creating various storms of icy wind that reached Lance regardless of whether or not he teleported away or not. "We can hurt it, but it doesn't even care..." Metatron said.Lance was once again flung backward, just barely managing to to stop himself from smashing against the wall once more.
"It's too big!" Lance realized. his illusions would mean nothing when the wolf body was large enough to simply disperse them en masse.
"to land, a lethal blow, ill have to get in close..." Lance thought. immediately he used his teleportation, appearing underneath the beast, right below its stomach. as soon as he reached the wolf's location he grabbed the sword he had picked up earlier. with a mighty thrust, he stabbed the sword into the beast's stomach, amplifying the sword's already unnaturally sharp edge with Metatron powers. after doing this he would try to teleport away, to avoid any possible wind the beast would produce.
Lance barely had time to activate Metatron attack reflection, creating a small portal that deflected a portion of the winds away from him. this, however, didn't stop him from being sent flying backward, slamming against the ground, and nearly breaking his back on impact.The enormous wolf didn't even flinch as it violently shook its body, creating various storms of icy wind that reached Lance regardless of whether or not he teleported away or not. "We can hurt it, but it doesn't even care..." Metatron said.
Kiara turned up the heat to the maximum, allowing her to defend herself from the icy winds this time. "Damn... We'll either have to destroy it in one shot or restrain it somehow..." Kiara then had a lightbulb moment.
"Lance, distract it!" She yelled out.
(Your lack of an apostrophe S when saying 'Metatron's power' is cringe.)