Meanwhile, in the primary barrier Captain Paige, Princess Emilia, and Lieutenant Cecilia battle Celaeno, The Dark Harpie.
CLASH
The shields Paige makes take a toll.
"Cecilia you have to try and attack her" Paige insists.
"Am trying Captain but-"
"It's ok I got the princess protected by me she's going to be fine," Paige reassures Cecilia.
"Alright," Cecilia says.
Cecilia lunges forward with each strike she takes blocking Celaeno's attacks with her feathers. With multiple feathers surrounding the area. Protecting Paige and Emilia in the meantime.
"Is she going to be alright?" Emilia asks.
"Don't worry princess she's trained and meant for this type of environment she'll be fine."
BLOCK Cecilia blocks more of Celaeno's feathers.
"She's my lieutenant of course," Paige says.
Celaeno smiles.
The feathers shot right past Cecilia and more keep coming from the front.
"Why does she keep trying to attack me with the feathers if she knows that I can parry and block them?" Cecilia asks herself.
She then takes a look at her surroundings and figures it out.
"Oh no," Cecilia worries.
"Come back," Celaeno says.
The feathers that were surrounding the area suddenly shoot back at a rapid speed.
"Sheild of Ajax" Paige yells.
The shield develop but there weren't fast enough.
Cecilia suffers a wound in her left arm.
"Cecilia!" Paige yells.
"Am fine captain just a wound no worries I can still fight" Cecilia says holding her rapier in her right hand with her left arm behind her back.
Celaeno then laughs as the feathers come back to her. "This really does seem like child play you know" with a sinister and echoing voice. "It's funny to me that you claim to be the sword to the shield in this instance the shield is protecting the sword" Celaeno taunts Cecilia. "Just give it up it's clear that your subordinate here does not match up to my skills."
"Your wrong. My Lieutenant is here on this mission and partnered with me for a reason she is the sword to my shield. She will defeat you."
A surge of energy then comes to Celaeno as she gains the powers of her fallen sisters.
"Yes, this is it sisters I will avenge you all."
Celaeno then grows bigger, now with larger wings, in black, with a mix of green, red, and blue in her wings. A set of swords on her claws. The power to wield the wind.
Cecilia looks back at Paige, takes a deep breath, and closes her eyes.
Paige nods her head.
Cecilia with her back leg remaining stationary, her right arm straight, lunges forward at Celaeno.
Celaeno responds and flies straight for Cecilia.
Cecilia parries Celaeno's swords as she lunges at each attack she tries to land.
Distracted by the swords Cecilia doesn't pay attention to what's happening around her Celaeno tries for an aerial assault.
Celaeno uses her wings to fly up but Cecilia jumps and catches up.
"Was she always able to jump that high? Also, keep up with me even with my new form. Impossible. I should have Ocypete's swift flying ability why isn't it working?"
Ocypete again hurls another set of feathers but this time it detonates when it reaches Cecilia.
Cecilia was unscathed again.
"What. Damn, I should just send her flying towards the ground."
Celaeno rushes towards Cecilia and then throws her straight down hurling towards the ground. Then a barrier seems to form outta nowhere and Cecilia is able to get her footing correct and ricochet off that.
Expecting an offensive Celaeno uses wind to try and stop her.
Cecilia doesn't seem to be affected by it and appears to be going faster.
"What happened??" Celaeno wonders. Cecilia heads straight for her.
"A buff. You applied a buff to her didn't you captain?" Emilia asks.
"Yes am not only a defensive mage but a great support mage as well" Paige remarks.
"So it was your Captain that made you be able to keep up with me huh so long as I get rid of her am-" Celaeno suddenly feels slow.
"Huh, what?"
PIERCE
Cecilia pierces Celaeno in the chest. "You were half right and half wrong. Yes, it was indeed my captain's buff ability that made me apart from you for the time being. Also, it was due to the fact you were already being slowed as well. Moreover, the reason why you moving slower is due to my rapier's having this ability to slow objects that it touches," Cecilia says.
"Huh," Celaeno confused.
"Basically the whole time you shooting your feathers and I was parrying little by little it started to pile up. Regardless if I didn't have my captain sooner or later I would drop you myself" Cecilia says with a smile on her face.
"You damn brat don't get -" Celaeno tries to swipe Cecilia.
IRON MAIDEN.
An Iron Maiden then appears and traps Celaeno in there.
SMASH
The screams of the last harpie then begin to fade.
Paige then steps forward. Although I am the shield of the association doesn't mean I don't have some sorta offensive ability.
This is why we are the sword and shield.
Cecilia then gets back to the ground.
"Captain did I do go-" Cecilia collapses from exhaustion and the wound he got.
Paige catches her before she could touch the ground.
"Yes you did Cecilia you did great, am proud of you," Paige says.
"Captain!" Alice Dillia and Jericho arrive at the main barrier.
"Milady are you alright are you armed?" Jericho asks.
"Yes am fine just minor scratches here and there," Emilia says.
"Thank goodness."
"You didn't have to use your ability right?" Jericho asks.
"No there was no need it was thanks to them" as she looks over at Paige and Cecilia in her arms.
"Miss Paige are you guys alright?" Alice asks.
"Yes, we are Alice dear she just used up a lot of energy," Paige says.
"That's good," Alice says.
"How about you guys everything fine? Paige asks.
"Yes," both Alice and Dillia respond. "But we saw June's hawk fly from Bellanoir. Something must be wrong," Alice says.
"Where is Kaneda?" Paige asks.
"Still fighting," Dillia says.
"We should get back to Bellanoir," Paige says.
"Jericho can you please carry Miss Cecilia back to the palace," Emilia asks.
"What of you I shall accompany them back to Bellanoir we'll rendezvous there," Emilia says.
"Alright," Jericho says.
"But what about Captain Kaneda?" Alice says.
"He'll be fine," Paige says to the group. The group then starts to walk off the Emerald Path and "Kaneda you dumbass don't play around this time," Paige thinks to herself.
Meanwhile back with Kaneda, Alexia, and Xella.
"Well, it looks to be a handicap Captain what shall you do," Xella says.
"I'll finish him Xella I won't need you," Alexia says.
"Awe we can beat him since I froze him last time," Xella says disappointed.
"HEY ill take both of you guys . Come at me," Kaneda says.
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"It seems our Revenants were defeated," Alexia says.
"Well, I guess we can beat you for fun I guess" Xella claims.
Kaneda takes off his coat and cracks his knuckles. "Uh, I seem to be the last one with a fight left. I don't want to make my students wait. Come at me"