>>6042049Because you’re an interloper, a blasphemer, one who defies the will of the god, one who will undo so many years of progress, one who must be told to STOP. STOP. STOP!You force your way through it, and shatter the node. One more down. Headache’s back, getting worse. Gotta press onward. You and Chiaotzu fly off again, trying to find the next one. Gotta stay focused. Gotta keep going. Gotta finish this. Okay, next one, this will…!
Hundreds of voices yell in your mind telling you to stop, but that’s joined with a new multitude… one declaring ‘SHE IS HERE! SHE IS HERE!’
You try to pull back, but a blast of Lightning hits you from above, electricity coursing through your body, followed by what feels like the air being pulled from your lungs. You can’t even properly scream in pain. Chiaotzu is able to get you out of the worst of it before any more damage can be done, but in doing so Zelos has his sights on the both of you.
“YOU…!” the avian deity snarls out, and the air around you both starts to thin again as you try to catch your breath. “YOU CONTINUE TO BE A THORN IN MY SIDE, CHILD!”
19 rockets up to him, hands clasped together, striking him on the head with a hammer blow, then kickind him in the back of the neck, delivering a spin-kick to knock him away. She turns to the two of you, clearly a bit more worse for wear, but still holding her own quite well. “Move! He knows what you both have been trying to do! I will continue to hold him off!”
“19!” Chiaotzu calls to her in worry.
“No more! No more of that damn trick of yours!” Zelos roars as he recovers, calling forth a hooked staff with a forked point at the other end, covered in engraved Magical runes, sands swirling around behind him in massive dust devils. “I will strike you down you blasphemous machine! Break you apart piece by piece! Spread your broken circuits across the stars! Grind you to dust so thoroughly that even the sparks will beg for a mercy they do not deserve! I WILL-!”
She doesn’t let him finish, flying at him at full speed once more and trying to wrestle out the staff from his hands, though in truth she was just trying to knock him into the attack he was preparing, even if she has to go along with him in doing so. “Finish what you started!” she yells back at you and Chiaotzu.
Gotta keep at it then. “Come on. She can handle herself. Breaking this means we remove one more tool Zelos has.”
(cont.)