Chereads / PROJECT: Lullaby / Chapter 33 - Day 4: 06:42PM

Chapter 33 - Day 4: 06:42PM

"Keep your eyes peeled, kid, I won't let you die!" Miggy shouted as he hurled his ball over to the knight in the distance to stun him right before he was able to punch Viela, who followed up his attack with a wide swing that sent their enemy flying. "Just go!"

"Yes, sir!" Juanito roared back even though his voice trembled as he ran. He tried to follow Viela's movement as she moved towards the knight on the ground, smashing his body with the shaft of her spear even before he could recover.

"Keep counting, Viela would be open after three or four more attacks!" Miggy commanded, reeling his weapon back to make it bigger right before he made it spin behind him.

The knight kicked the ground and jumped to dodge Viela's following attack and as soon as his feet caught the surface of the ground, he let out a guttural scream that rang in his battered helm as he pushed himself forward. He threw out a swift punch that Viela avoided by the hair as she stepped to his side. At the same second and without even stopping to take a deep breath, she made her spear spin to send a crushing blow towards her enemy's face once more.

Their enemy faced his trembling feet as if his world was turned upside down and with that small window of opportunity, Viela raised her pike into the air and grabbed its body with both her hands. She made herself spin to launch the blade of her spear towards the knight as though it was a sword but to her surprise, the knight was able to recover and dodge her blow. He lowered his stance with his fist winding up, however, at the moment he was about to throw it to Viela's stomach, a huge chained ball of concrete came his way.

It didn't stop him, the knight merely lowered his head to evade it but then, when he was one step away from punching a hole through Viela, he saw a rock flying by and that made him stop. He felt the tension of his muscles going away as he turned his head to follow it, as though he was entranced until it fell to the ground that seemingly woke him up from a strange dream. Just then, even before he could raise his arms to defend, he received a devastating blow at his side that cracked his armor before he found himself crashing and bouncing off of the solid ground. He experienced another second of him being suspended in midair until a yellow beam came from above and drove him back to the floor with an explosion.

"Good job, kid, keep it up," Miggy shouted with a smile as wide as the one plastered on his white mask. He pulled his weapon back from Viela's side a second later, making it bigger once more as he took a few steps towards her.

"Yes… sir…" Juanito replied with his smirk wavering as he knelt down to pick up a handful of rocks on the ground. "I'll do my best."

"Step it up, gentlemen, I almost died because of you, twice…" Viela added, tightening her grip on her battered spear as she heaved out a long heavy breath through her chest. Then, with her voice that sounded so serene and cute despite being spoken as if she was making a protest, she continued, "Keep it up and I might die on the next one."

"Well, just take a deep breath, Miss Viela, relax… don't go running off too far from my range too…" Miggy replied with a whimsical tone as he made the ball at his side spin. "We can't have you die off on us, you know, but then again," he followed, winding up his weapon and shooting it a second later, letting it pass through Viela's face as it went towards the silhouette of the knight arising from the cloud of smoke. "if by some chance, you took a hit and died, I'll make sure to use that little opening to finish him off."

"Sweet," Viela sighed, giving out a thumbs up that was soon followed by three yellow beams of light that shot down to bomb the knight once more.

"But man," Miggy scoffed while he recalled his weapon, watching the dust settle as the smell of cucumbers and gunpowder lingered on his nose. "we really got the short end of the stick here. It seems like we're staying here for too long as well."

"True," she replied, stealing a glance at Juanito and Rei before she stepped to the side so that Miggy could get a full view of their enemy. "This fight is bound to get some attention, but It's not like it would matter."

"Surely, it makes a lot of difference when you could just slide in and touch him…" Miggy replied as he took another few steps forward. "I would rather take a hundred of other guys that were far from what this guy is, hell, I'd be willing to bite off more than what I could chew if it meant fighting someone else."

"That's rare, coming from you," Viela replied as though she was smiling while she took her stance and raised her spear.

"AAAAAaaaaAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaAA," the knight said as he staggered to his feet with only his charred helm, cracked cuirass and a bit of his gauntlets and boots stuck to his body. He didn't appear to be bleeding but the rest of his flesh was now covered by a black haze instead of mail. "Reve...nge… for… my… queen… I will…" It added, appearing as if he was straining his trembling body just to make another heavy step. "Revenge… I… will… justice… serve… be useful… I am…"

"Any chances of it going berserk?" Miggy asked, taking a deep breath and placing both of his feet firmly on the ground.

"No, its mind should've regressed already, I mean, it's already insane… let's just get this over with," Viela replied before letting out a sweet chuckle.

"Wanna try taking a stab at it?" Miggy continued.

"Might as well…" This time, instead of making her spear spin, Viela lowered her stance and held her weapon with both her hands as she watched the knight take another step forward.

"Head's up kid, we're gonna go at it again," Miggy followed up with a whimsical tone.

"Yes, sir!" Juanito shouted, taking his eyes off of Rei after a nod before he faced their enemy with a sharp gaze and a handful of rocks.

Miggy shook his staff and made his ball spin, making it rotate faster and faster after every revolution. "Alright, let's finish this—"

But then, at that moment, in the midst of that silence when all of them were about to make their move, someone came their way. Something ripped through the wind and fell down, calling their attention as its body collided with the cold hard ground. It was a woman, she started with her legs that had its bones dismantled as soon as it made contact. It was then followed by her hips and arms that broke in a snap and ending up with the rest of her body rolling through the floor with a flop, sounding as if someone slapped a slab of meat with their hands.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE, MARY?!" Miggy shouted, letting his chained ball lose its speed as he looked at her.

"The knight!" Rei shouted from the back, making all of them turn towards their enemy in panic.

The knight had already propelled himself forward with a seemingly newfound power that shook Juanito to his core. Veila stepped in by twisting her body to smack that knight away just like what had happened before but to her surprise, the knight whipped his left arm against it like a sword, shattering it in half as he broke through. Without even stopping to take a breath or to flinch from his broken left hand, the knight pushed himself further and jumped towards Miggy.

The reaper, as a response, raised a wall of gelatinous dirt that did nothing against the knight's incoming fist. His attack went through Miggy's shield and pushed him back to bite the ground. The knight moved on after demolishing that feeble wall as if to finish things off but even before it could realize what it was doing, it had already found itself running towards the panicking Juanito as though it was entranced.

"Fuck!" Viela shouted, gritting her teeth behind her mask and picking up the other half of her spear as she ran towards the knight.

"Rei… where are…." Mary groaned, calling the attention of Juanito who couldn't help but look her way and as though it broke his spell, the knight made a sharp turn and dashed towards her instead.

Juanito threw everything in his hand in an attempt to stop him, but he wasn't able to make him turn. Viela did the same as she threw the other part with a speartip at the knight, and it didn't even make him budge. The knight didn't even bother to block it as it just drove itself on his back and before they knew it, even with both of their attempts, he was now one step away from bashing Mary's head in. He raised his fist into the air and gathered his fingers to make it seem that his arm was a blade. Then, with a sharp breath and as he planted his feet to the ground, he brought it down and bore a hole through Rei's chest after he jumped in to protect her.

Rei coughed out a mouthful of blood a second after and even before he could let out a chuckle, the knight raised his left arm and broke his neck with his hand. The only thing that Viela and Juanito were able to do was to watch him from afar. Both of them were unable to do anything as he proceeded to yank his arm out of his heart and rip his lifeless dangling head away from his body as though his flesh was made of paper.