Mark rushes toward the plane that Lilly crashed on Hyeonin to defeat Hyeonin. As he's about to get there, Leila lands in front of him "Oh no, I don't think so" She points her blade at Mark.
Mark smiled and laughs "Get outta my way" until suddenly she blasts him with aurelian plasma. Mark flies into the forest; creating dusts everywhere in the sky.
Mark slowly got up and groaned as he notices his forehead is bleeding "Did I not use azure fire in time?" He asked himself. Leila flies through the air as she aims her sword, pointing toward Mark. Mark manages to evade the attack, causing Leila to pierce through the tree, sending splinters scattering.
Leila leaps in the air and grabs Mark by the head, throwing him toward the ground. Leila dashes back down and attempts a forceful stomp on Mark's head.
Mark quickly moves out the way as Leila pulls her sword out the tree and swings to Mark. Mark blasts azure fire. Leila avoids it, but Mark kicks her down.
Mark covers himself in azure fire as he floats in the sky. He charges a ball of azure fire as he screams "Haaaaaa!!!"
Leila does the same, charging her own aurelian plasma ball. A few moments after charge, Leila takes the liberty to strike first as she blasts the beams toward Mark.
Mark, all of the sudden disappears and dashes behind Leila "You're left opened" he strikes her neck with fiery fists as she collides to the dirt ground. Mark quickly flew back toward her and stabs into her stomach "Aaah!!" She screamed.
Mark smiles "You really thought you're all that" He laughs.
Meanwhile, on a skyscraper in Izuzunu, Trini is currently watching the battle with Sejrik. "Let's hope we win this battle" Trini said. "We will" Sejrik assures "The LCI should be weak against our army" he looked at Trini with a smile.
"Trini" a soldier said while entering the rooftop "Your arm is done"
Trini smiles as another soldier holds a case with a metal arm inside. She looks at it, excited to try it on her left arm, which has been sliced off last war. "Finally" She said as she gently touches the arm "I can fight"
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 10, CHAPTER 123, POWER OF AZURE FIRE
THE BATTLEFIELD
"Aaaaaah!!!" Nugget screamed out loud as his eyes glow bright blue. Fire surrounds his body as he falls from the sky and stomps on the floor, creating an azure fiery shockwave that wipes out some Zoidonian soldiers. Nugget looked around and began attacking the soldiers one by one.
A Zoidonian soldier attempts to shoot Nugget in the head, but the fire aura blocks the bullet. "Ugh.. ughhh!!" The soldier made sounds in fear "Fuck!"
Nugget dashes toward the soldier, but the soldier envelops in white plasma as he flies in the sky, trying to get away from Nugget. Nugget catches up and smacks him down to the ground. Nugget flies down quickly and slices his head clean off.
Xiulan, watching this, gives Nugget a round of applause, impressed by the new powers he's gotten from Phoenix. "Can you smile while clapping, you look weird with a straight face" Nugget spoke.
"I'm impressed" She said as she walks toward Nugget. "Uhh... okay" Nugget says "Can you help me fight the Zoidonians, though? Come on" Nugget asks for help. She then places her palms on Nugget's chest.
"What are you doing??" Nugget asked, confused, and also enjoying the touch. The moment quickly transforms into alarm as she unleashes plasma beams into Nugget's chest as he gets dragged by the energy beam. "What the-!! What are you-!!?" Nugget then finally realizes "Oh shit!!! You're the Dominant League member, Xiulan!"
Xiulan closes her eyes in disappointment and places her palms to her face "Are you stupid or something"
"You're stupid for picking to fight me!" Nugget dashes toward her, but she evades and kicks his back "Aah!" He slid through the ground. He groaned in pain "Ugh... fine... I'm stupid"
MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN
"Well this is boring" Mikey said, leaning his arms against the wooden ship and looking at the sea. The others are sitting around the ship, mostly bored as well.
"Bleh" Angie says. Angie is seasick as she leans her head against the railings, sitting on the stairs to the upper part of the ship. "Ugh!" Angie quickly stood up and ran toward the railings and vomits.
Vonda laughs "Hahahaha! Angie! Angie!" She begins chanting. Eugene walks up to Mikey "Hey"
"Hey" Mikey replied. "When we get to Novishi, we can finally learn the truth about the humans of this world" Eugene says.
"Yeah, that's why I want to go there" Mikey responds. It was silence once again, but Angie and Vonda were the only ones being loud at the distance. "Mikey, I'm sorry for destroying the LCI's camp" Eugene spoke.
"I don't think sorries can fix the damage you guys have done" Mikey stated. "Yeah, but I really mean it. All those people the Dominant League killed" Eugene pats Mikey on the back "I should've never joined the Dominant League. I was... I was forced to"
Mikey turns to Eugene "It's fine" he pats Eugene on the back as well and walks away from the railings. He goes inside the ship and lays in a comfy bed. He begins to think about Lexie.
"Mikey... do you really have to go?" Lexie says at the tree. "Yes, I'm sorry Lexie, but... we have to find the truth. Are we Novishians or... are we not?" Mikey gives Lexie a gentle kiss on her forehead. Her eyes begin to tear up "What if you don't make it back" Lexie says.
"I will make it back. I will come back for you, Lexie. I promise" tears streaming down Mikey's face while the others watch "How adorable" Vonda says to Angie with a smirk. "Yeah, if only my husband can do that" Angie chuckles while also mentioning her husband, Mark.
"Alright, you guys ready to go?" Mikey asked the others. "Yeah" They all said. They begin running out through the hallways as Lexie watches with her teary eyes "Please... don't die"
Jane smacks her back jokingly "Don't worry! He'll come back!" She laughed. Lexie looked at Jane "Okay" she says. Jane gives Lexie a hug as she watches Mikey leave through the door.
Mikey begins to tear up in the ship. The others walk in as Mikey quickly rubs his eyes "Hey, what's up you guys?"
"Nothing, just getting a bit freezing outside" Angie answered. Eugene walks inside too "Man, finally getting away from these zombies" Eugene rubs his palms together, too cold.
"Away from these zombies?" Mikey asked. "Oh yeah! Did you guys know that there are no zombies all around the world!!? They're only in Uapeisios!!" Vonda exclaimed. "What!!? How!!?" Mikey and Angie shouted.
"Well, it all started back then a long time ago" Eugene takes over "Not sure about the year or date, but possibly 1897"
The others were hooked, including Vonda because she never knew this information. The others listened as Eugene begin to tell a story about how it all started "The druzels call it... the Pyuklosh Virus Outbreak"
BATTLEFIELD
"Haaaa!!!" George screamed out as he charges at the Zoidonians, killing them all on the spot. One manages to shoot George as it hits his mask that Fui gave him. It absorbs the bullet's impact as it falls to the ground "Hahaha! The mask worked!!" George shouts as he beams the Zoidonian with the caliginous pink plasma.
George sees a figure in the distance as it slowly revealed itself in the smoke. The boy smiled with deeply to George as he spoke "Where is she? Where is Hinako"
"Hinako? What are you talking about-" George gasps, realizing that it's Liam. The boy from the beach that tried assaulted Hinako and her younger brother, Ubuki. "Liam??" George, surprised.
"Yes... it's me" Liam says. "You disgusting piece of shit! I remember what you did!!" George shouted. "Oh do you?" Liam laughed.
"And you even joined the enemy's group" George said. "Yeah. Because they made me stronger. They gave me the best spellbind ever!" Liam fuses himself with caliginous emerald plasma as the energy surrounds the area "Haahhahahaa!!" He laughed.
George stayed calm, but angry. "Once I'm done with this and win the war, I'm gonna marry Hinako... and she'll do whatever I tell her to do!!" Liam dashes toward George as he blocks Liam's attacks.
George blasts plasma balls toward Liam as he evades and kicks George's face. George erupts in plasma as he dashes against Liam in the sky. George sends Liam down with a strike of a punch as he lands on the Zoidonians. George spins in the sky and stomps onto Liam's face. He begins stripping Liam out of his armor and throwing them all on the battlefield as he delivers a forceful punch to Liam's face multiple times.
Liam's nose starts pouring out blood as his eyes became black and bruised up, cuts and wounds begin to form on Liam's face. George stops and kicks his body away with plasma energy as he lands in the battlefield, unconscious. George spits on the floor and flies up in the sky.
Nugget and Xiulan have a stare down. The moment was intense as the battle continues in the background. "Thanks for giving me time" Xiulan shouted, as they're too far from each other.
"Time for what?" Nugget's serious face becomes confused, getting out of his stance and tilting his head. "This" She quietly says. "What!? I can't hear you!! You have to scream, remember!!?" Nugget shouted.
It was quiet. Nugget begins to get impatient "For what, god damn it!"
Xiulan let out a breath and slightly smirks as Nugget gets blasted by her plasma beams from behind "Aaah!!" Nugget screamed out as it sends him flying toward Xiulan. As he flew to Xiulan, Xiulan kicks into his stomach, sending a huge amount of damage to his stomach "Aaaah!!" He screamed in pain as he falls to the floor.
Nugget coughs out blood as he closes his eyes. Xiulan walked toward him with her sword out, ready to strike "Even if you have azure fire; a much more powerful spellbind than mine, I can still beat you"
Nugget grunts as he held his stomach, trying to breathe for air. He's broken a bone. Nugget's hands fidgets rapidly as he's in tremendous pain; it was brutal. While his hands still shaky, he tries to pick up his sword, but she kicks his face toward the ground. Nugget couldn't scream. His head began to fidget as well as he lays his head down on the dirt, he watches as Xiulan lifts the sword up to the sky and strike down to Nugget's heart. He inhales heavily until falling unconscious.
TO BE CONTINUED....