Achilles held his sword up to Nightmare as the two looked at each other, both were buying time for different reasons. "Well patch me up and call me wounded, cause I thought you would have died from the last time I fought against you, and where is your loverboy?"
"Ah, he is overrated. A talented man as he is, I have more natural ability than he does!" Achilles boosted himself up, he did not need Airsoft to win this fight the first time or this time, he took off his glasses as his cyan eye gleamed with the golden eyes glittering with the light from the ozone layer.
"You think you can take me on with your own abilities? You remember how last time went, you needed to be saved by the fucking giant ass bitch." Nightmare chuckled as he saw their goals were the same. "You just want to stall so Astral can thin the ranks and then save everyone, you think he is that skilled of a hero?"
Achilles dashed in as he sent a flurry of slashes in with his sword as he smiled. "No, I just think you villains are weak enough for us to kill you ourselves." Achilles landed a small cut on Nightmare's left shoulder as his knives were not cutting it defensively.
"I doubt we need to hold out forever, all we are waiting on is our other heavy hitter, Titan can clear the floor with you." Nightmare parried correctly as he finally had the upper hand closing the gap and sending several stabs towards Achilles who blocked it with ease, every close blow slid off his armor with ease.
"So what happened to that other heavy hitter?" Achilles would keep on his back foot as he wanted to time out this fight, a feeling of warmth surrounded him as he was happy to feel it. Nightmare's attacks fell short as Achilles matched his boost that Nightmare had.
"Never showed up, or he is waiting in the shadows, he was one of a very powerful organization, all I was told by Titan is that he didn't like their leader but had to respect their power." Nightmare saw how they were equal in skill and strength. Resorting to letting Achilles land a couple of shallow blows as his blood became flowing.
"Astral has already killed them then. I saw Astral vanish before my very eyes. Slipping away he came out victorious as obvious by your friends taking him on now." Achilles felt like he held the mental advantage for a moment as blood spears pierced his armor but not the undersuit.
"Doesn't blood make you tingle even a little bit, we are both mere mortals compared to the two we are buying time for. And yet if we had to, when we have to, we will put ourselves on the line to save the others." Nightmare ripped the chestplate off of Achilles as his undersuit was the only thing covering his flesh.
"The difference is we both can buy even a minute or two." Achilles felt worried, the undersuit was protective but blades can still easily cut it as Nightmare charged at him. Blood spears being fired at him from the leaking carcass attacking him.
"One two three, you will be freed of your life!" Nightmare was close enough as three knife stabs later the undersuit was pierced as Achilles was bleeding softly, he contracted his muscles and stopped it from gushing as the magic circle appeared beneath their feet.
Achilles felt another small boost, but it wouldn't matter, he can't bypass the attacks, he just has to win, even if its for another minute, another strike. "Come and get it!" Achilles held his blade up in a pose ready to strike as Nightmare charged forward.
Achilles added all the power he could muster into the one swing as a giant gash appeared on Nightmare's chest. Several more stab wounds appeared on his body as he took sharp and shallow breaths. "You won this one." Achilles turned as Nightmare walked over.
"Then I shall take my reward." Nightmare heard the call for help as he sliced off Achilles' ear and ate it while running to the meetup spot. Achilles felt the pain stinging in each spot of his body as he could do nothing to help it, his body felt numb with power and pain. All that could be done is a wait for help or a sweet release of death.
Achilles laid down softly as he saw flames fire up around him and slowly dissipate, he closed his eyes while the radio chatter picked up from his front, they needed his leadership badly, as good as Airsoft was, there was only one man they trusted. Whispers of Achilles' name reached the radio waves as Achilles clung to life, he couldn't give up on them just yet. He heard footsteps as he leaned up slowly, his vision was blurred as he saw the outline of Jaimie.
James waddled over first as he pulled out small little patches while Jaimie held her spear up to the wounds, it was scalding hot to the touch as it cauterized the wounds. All James did was spray their healing spray on it and put the healing patches on it. "Achilles, your people want you to lead them, fill them with hope." Jaimie extended her left hand as he took it.
Looking over at James he was quiet. "Do you have a vial of adrenaline?" James fumbled in his bag as Achilles held his hand out. Handing it over as Achilles nodded. "Thank you, now I can save my people." Achilles injected it to him as he started sprinting, his people needed him more than they did, and they knew that as Jaimie nodded.
"Now we need to find your sister." Jaimie took off in her direction as James followed closely. "Once we find her we mainly have to sit back and scout the outer ring of the city for any other loose threats that he isn't taking on, and if there are none we head to the center and help him out." Jaimie finished her thought as they kept running, a sense of eeriness washed over them.
"And if we do help Astral what are the odds he even accepts us? Allowing us to help and finish the fight?" James and Jaimie slid to a halt as they looked over and saw Angel in her cocoon covered by her wings.