Within seconds, Aurelia swung her Naginata blade at my neck at blinding speeds. I duck down dodging it, before sweeping my feet across the ground, attempting to trip her. She jumps in the air, before igniting the blade in purple Tamajutsu and slamming it down toward my head- an attack that dodge, rolling to the left. Aurelia dislodges her blade from the ground, before turning her head to Kibaku. "What the hell are you doing?!" Kibaku flinches. "What did I just say?! You take them, I'll take him!"
Kibaku rightens himself, muttering something about walruses, before outstretching his hands, red mist swirling around them. I activate my Discord, engulfing my hands in black electricity, the scream of lightning echoing throughout the tower. I lock my eyes on Aurelia. "Let's get this over with quickly, okay?" She smirks, pressing her hand against the tower wall. "System Crash."
In a flash of fluctuating colors, the wall that Aurelia had touched exploded into millions of multi-colored pixels. My mind was in disarray from this- and I had nearly no time to think before Aurelia- obscured by these lights- sped forward at breakneck speeds toward me. In an action of pure instinct, I quickly coat my hand in electricity, parrying the attack, but still sending me flying out of the Tower. I stuck my hand out, catching my fall. I quickly righten myself as Aurelia lands in front of me.
Wasting no time, I activate my Discord, Wings of Calamity sprouting from my back. Aurelia sizes me up, still smiling confidently. I flap my wings, accelerating forward at top speed- and within the fraction of a millisecond that I was in front of her, she sidestepped the attack, dodging it. I crashed into the ground, the unbridled energy of my speed shattering the earth below me.
"Your soul is completely uncontrolled," Aurelia says. "You have almost no control of it- you're like a toddler with a sword. You have the greatest weapon, but no idea how to use it!" Her blade bursts into a purple flame as she slams it into the ground, tearing the terrain apart. I struggle to keep my footing, and even that is something I am given no time to think about as Aurelia blitzes forward, taking advantage of the confusion.
She swings her flaming blade at my head- and I close my eyes. Focus on the soul...
A burning green aura appears from the darkness. It was Aurelia's. It would slash to the left. I dodge to the right, Aurelia's Naginata just barely missing my arm. I plant my foot in the ground, before flapping my wings and ascending into the air.
"I heard about your fights in Neo City and Garuik. You think you're so strong because you just BARELY beat Zenmetsu? You think you can get your friend back when you nearly died the last time you tried?" She laughs. "Don't make me laugh, boy." She disappears in a puff of dust, and my eyes immediately begin to scan the area in search of-
I'm knocked from the sky as her blade slices through my back, the force sending me tumbling through the air. I righten myself as I stand up from the swirling dust around me. I can sense the movement of Aurelia all around me as she moves, concealed in the cloud. I charge my hand in electricity, slamming it into the ground. "COME FORTH!! CALAMITY TSUKIME!!"
A bolt of electricity strikes the center of the swirling cloud, parting it in a wave of intense heat and energy. As the bolt ceases, the hot form- the regal form of Calamity Tsukime is revealed...she looks the same. her clothes are just black now. Wow. Kool.
I sense movement behind me. It was the same green aura as before. I quickly turn around, clapping my hands once. "Tsukime!" The electric form of Tsukime appears instantaneously and parries Aurelia's attack with her own Sword of Calamity.
Tsukime turns her head to me. "You haven't summoned me in 19 f**king chapters." I shrug. "My fault O.G"
"ENOUGH!" Aurelia yells. "I don't have time for this!" I smirk. "Don't worry. This won't take long." I burst forward, my footsteps creating craters in the ground...
Wait.
I wasn't moving- or at least, I was moving at insanely low speeds. Aurelia stood in front of me, hand outstretched. "Frame Drop." Tsukime charges forth from Aurelia's right, slashing her sword. Aurelia flips out of the way, before slashing Tsukime as well- and upon contact, Tsukime seems to pixelate as she screams in pain. "Eight-Bit Slash!"
Aurelia lands back on the ground, taking a deep breath. "You were right," She says. "This won't take very long." She blitzes forward once more, and I clap my hands. A large metallic "clang" can be heard as the two blades of Tsukime and Aurelia collide in a flash of purple and black energy.
As Aurelia is hit, I feel my body go back to normal, and I can move again. I gesture toward her. "Okay, how the HELL am I supposed to deal with that THING?!" Tsukime turns her head to me, annoyed. "How the HELL am I supposed to deal with YOU?!" I smile. "Fair." I leap forward, Landing on Tsukime's hand before she throws me upward even higher. I grow my black wings once again, catching myself in midair.
Aurelia screams up at me. "Don't think you can just run away like that!" She holds her hand up, a ball of purple Tamajutsu forming in it- before it blasts forward in a bolt of purple energy. "DISCHARGE!"
My hand crackles in electricity as a blade of energy forms in it. I cock my arms back, before pouring all of my energy into one slash, ripping through the Tamajutsu beam. I dive downward from the sky, careening toward Aurelia. I once again attempt to focus on her soul, and sense that this time she wouldn't attack...but her soul would extend. I dodge out of the way of this, causing it to collide with Tsukime- who freezes.
I lightbulb goes off in my head. That Frame Drop ability that she used earlier was obviously a part of her Twitch- but I didn't know how it worked. for that particular ability, she probably has to hit her enemy with some intangible force that halts their movement. So now all I have to do is sense this force quickly enough.
I continued to descend until I was face-to-face with Aurelia. I dodged a slash, clapping my hands, summoning Tsukime to slash at Aurelia's legs. Aurelia effortlessly slashed through Tsukime and her sword, causing her to dematerialize.
I ignite my fist in Tamajutsu and infuse it with Calamity, as Aurelia swings her flaming Naginata blade. The ground around us is immediately demolished as the overwhelming force splits it apart with ease. My eyes are locked on Aurelia's as our two attacks tear apart everything within sight. I push harder. "This all you got?!" Aurelia pushes harder as well. "HOLD YOUR TOUNGE, KNAVE! HACKING: UPSIDE!!"
Within a second, everything was thrown into chaos, as the very concept of gravity was quite literally put upside-down. I struggled to stay stable as we were actually falling up. To my left, Aurelia was using the blocks of rubble as solid ground to keep on advancing toward me. I clap my hands. "WINGED CALAMITY: TSUKIME!" Right as Aurelia would've sliced me in half, Tsukime appeared above me, yanking me out of harm's way.
I think fast, sprouting my black wings as Aurelia continues to advance. I snap my fingers as I fall from Tsukime's hands- and a bright black bolt of electricity strikes Aurelia- obliterating her and the rubble around her- the dust once again concealing her.
I once again tried to locate her soul, and I was successful, but it seemed to be all around me. I lock my hands in the Tora hand symbol. "Neo City Domain!!" An aura of electricity exuded from my body at lightning speeds, covering my entire vicinity. I enact another series of hand signs before locking them in position. "Black Gojira!" Once again, a reptilian figure of pure calamity energy appears, dwarfing the entire area. I clasp my hands together. "Feast!" The beast's gaping maw abruptly shut, engulfing the entire dust cloud that contained Aurelia.
In an explosion of black sparks, Aurelia exploded outward from the beast, sprinting forward, her hand outstretched in an unrecognizable hand sign. "Ctrl H: Hacking Upside!!" As quickly as it had happened the first time, gravity once again folded upside down again. As I fell, I stared blankly at Aurelia. "The F*CK did you just say!?!!!"
Aurelia stared back. "What? You mean, Ctrl H: Hacking Upside?" I nod. "Yeah- you just sounded like you had a stroke."
My wings flap slowly as I land on the ground once again, about ten yards from Aurelia as I once again coat my fists in Tamajutsu. Aurelia swings her blade as it also ignites in the very same purple soul flames. "I ALMOST thought you were a decent person." She said. I nod. "I get that allot."
Oiran was no longer herself. Try as she might, she couldn't control her own body as she patrolled the vessel she was being kept in. She had been put in this crate about an hour ago, and whatever she was in seemed to be moving. Oiran was jerked forward as the vehicle came to a stop, and the footsteps of guards coming to get her could be heard.
The crate doors opened with a creak as the outside light of Titus began to flood in. A guard slowly walked toward her, attempting not to alert Oiran of his entrance- but this failed miserably. Oiran whipped around faster than the man could perceive, grabbing him by his neck, and her sharp claws piercing his flesh.
It was this, however, that gave the other guard an opening to latch on a collar of his own, causing Oiran to crumble to her feet as all of her energy was sapped from her body. The two guards then took Oiran by her arms and feet, and hoisted her into the air, carrying her out. Oiran had very little idea of her surrounings- all of the thoughts in her head made it hard to focus, but there was one structre that Oiran could never forget. One that harbored so much pain in her life that no physical abuse could ever re-create. The structure right in front of her. The Valkyrie Holding Facility.