Cage of the Shattered

Chapter 27

 Phaedra walked towards a few people fighting. "Guess that's wherewe're heading." William said, walking behind everyone."It's where Negative is," Andrew was walking next to Sapphire,reading the people in front's minds."They're all here to destroy him; and they're losing." Phaedra got afew of Negative as they got closer, nearly stopping in her tracks."Phaedra? Are you sure this is a good idea?" Sapphire asked, feelingguilty for not wanting to help. Phaedra thought to herself, not at all, butremained silent. They got closer seeing the people laying around. Theystepped into a crater and all instantly felt the strong gravitational pull."Just getting warmed up." Negative noticed them coming trying to crushthem with gravity. They slowed down trying to stay upright. Ciel seemedunaffected by it and rushed towards Negative. She landed a punch on hisface hurting her hand. Negative, returning a favour, gave Ciel a backhand,throwing her backwards. She hit the ground, a few people on it breakingher fall.Phaedra's eyes gave a subtle purple glow as she began runningtowards Negative. William saw her and noticed she wasn't moving quickenough. "Damn, I hope this works." His hands glowed a bright orangebefore hitting the ground. He saw it generating a shockwave pushingPhaedra at a quicker speed towards Negative.Pheadra jumped through the air, she landed a kick in Negative'sstomach. He stumbled back from the force, wrapping an arm around hiswaist. Phaedra landed behind him preparing for another attack. Andrewteleported next to Phaedra touching her in the process."You ready?" He asked. Phaedra nodded. They both hit Negative as herecovered. His skin gave a purple glow on impact. They concentrated andhit him from both sides causing him to drop to the ground. Negativerecovered faster than before, catching Phaedra and Andrew off guard.Negative struck them back sending them flying through the air. Hegenerated an electric bolt hitting them both. Andrew passed out beforehitting the ground. Phaedra groaned as she hit; she struggled getting upbut managed.William pushed himself off the ground towards Negative. The two ofthem got into a fist fight; Negative managed to dodge the blows with hissuperspeed wearing William down. Negative punched William a few timesin the gut. He absorbed the hits, building up energy.Sapphire analysed Negative's moves as he fought William, Phaedra,Ceil and Andrew. He had a lot of abilities and probably has a few more thatare still unknown. Sapphire watched the fight scared to budge in but whenshe saw everyone around her being unable to tame the beast they callNegative she had to fight. Sapphire locked her eyes onto Negative. Andonce she saw the perfect moment, she joined the fight. Moving quickly andswiftly she used the ability of a cheetah to match Negative's speed. Shealong with William threw punches towards Negative while still dodging hisattacks as well. Sapphire got knocked back when a surprise side kick wasthrown towards her. She stood her ground. Looking around she noticedeveryone around her were hurt and William was about to get hurt too.Negative screwed up and William managed to land a punch inNegative's gut. Negative got thrown back with the force of William's punch.He hit the ground leaving a crater.He got up and looked up at the three people still standing. Phaedrathrew a solid beam of light at him but he was ready for it. He created aportal in front of him throwing the beam back towards Phaedra. She flewthrough the air falling next to where Ciel layed. Lying motionless on thefloor.William became mad and rushed towards Negative. Negativemanipulated the earth as he came running. William flew through the air asa pillar hit him from the bottom.Sapphire took her stance facing Negative, her eyes had a subtle purpleglow to them. She put her hands together to form a directional super sonicwave. She aimed it right at Negative but he didn't seem phased by it.Sapphire shot the wave toward Negative. Negative just smiled, using hisenergy absorption he absorbed the energy coming from Sapphire's sonicwave. "My turn" he said with a grin. Using his dark Blast he hit Sapphirestraight in the stomach that sent her flying backwards and hitting theground.Noodle was full. Eating demonic dragons with a hard side of tequila.He could feel the dark dimensions energy seeping into him. He wasresilient to its changing sensations. He had felt a wave of heat when hewas eating the dragon. It lit his drink on fire. Noodle packed up his stuff andmarched to the fighting area. He had studied Negative. This was gonna begood. He had been saving a great move for him. Noodle arrived atnegative.'''Hello little bro" "Huh" Negative hits Noodle then slams him intothe ground. The dust from the slam "You can't kill me that easy little bro"Noodle hits Negative with his Habanero Hit. Negative opens a portal underNoodle and cuts him in half. Each half of Noodle regenerates into twoNoodles. "Now you have two of me to deal with." Noodle 1 Hits Noodle 2"He's gonna be my meal" The 2 noodles fight to the death. Noodle oneremains and eats Noodle 2. " "Now your mine lil bro" Noodle leaps anduses his Liquorice Whip. A whip of red plazma is slung into Negative'scollar bone. The plazma hits through his ribs. Noodle shoots Negative witha Zero Blast. "You pink puddy, I will turn you inside out." Negative isinfuriated. He starts to use Nuclear Fission. Noodle begins to grow andbulks up. Levels of mass condenses into a mussely rock. "Hello lil bro. I'munbreakable" Then all the pressure releases and pushes negative backleaving broken rock and mountains. Negative throws a punch. The titanarmor is un damaged. Noodle hits negative, knocking two teeth out. Noodleand negative keep hitting each other. Negative uses a dark blast to kickNoodle back. Negative shoots lighting and fire at Noodle as spike rocksshoot out the ground at Noodle. Negative puts dark energy around his fist.He jumps back 100 feet then launches a hit with everything he has atNoodle. Noodle is hit on the ground. "Now lil bro, time to show you thepower I've been saving." Noodle poofs into his normal appearance. Hewipes off the blood from his mouth. Noodle begins to glow yellow. Theground shakes and blows out heat from the core of the earth. Noodles eyesglow white. Radiation is everywhere. The sky turns a glowing white everyanimal on earth looks in the direction of Noodle. The sky calms down andmegatons of power condenses into Noodle. Noodle punches Negativestopping his heart for 10 seconds. Many arms come out of Noodle cuttingpieces out of Negative's back. "Aaaaaaaaahhhhgggggg" Negative punchesNoodle but he catches it and breaks his wrist. Negative throws a punch anda portal opens. Negative punches himself. Negative screams out of anger.Negative holds his hand in the sky and slams it down. A giant asteroid isbarreling towards Noodle. Noodle catches it and shrinks it into a tiny ball."Cool a souvenir. Hey lil bro can you give me a second i'm gonna eat yourback meat." Negative shoots Noodle with a dark blast. "Okay i'll eat it later."Noodle makes a forcefield around them. "I'll just cook you alive." Noodleturns the oxygen in the dome into carbon. "A nice greenhouse gas. I use itfor humans and cows" negative shoots radiation at Noodle. "Thanks, nicetang. Nothing like radiation" Noodle releases a nuclear blast hotter than thecore of the sun. Negative rushes to the wall of the dome. And opens aportal. Noodle closes the portal in time. Noodle begins to realise all theenergy from Noodle Nova " Negative screams and releases blast andexplosions' ' Finally the blast of fire is gone. The temperature in the domeis. 24,000,000 degrees Celsius. Noodle uses a Zero Blast to cool it down to45 degrees Fahrenheit. Negative's skin is burnt coal. Noodle puts his handon Negative and heals him back before he fights him. "Now good luck lilbro." "Why heal me" "We just fought as siblings. There gave a Murp bar. It'sgood." Noodle lets Negative eat and heal up. "I'll just sit and eat you backmeat while you fight. See ya lil bro"Meanwhile, Calista was shocked as to what happened to Allen andshe started screaming in agony."You annoying girl." Negative said while he smirked. He then shot anenergy beam at Calista which went through her arm."I am fine, Calista." Allen said as he tried to get up."You guys are pathetic!" Aku said while laughing as he started flyingin the air. "Let me handle it from here." Aku continued saying while lookingNegative straight in the eyes.They both then rushed at each other as Negative punched Aku in theface but Aku fell to the ground, landing on his feet as he put electricityaround his body to fly to Negative really fast but Negative then kicked Akuin the ribs. He then slammed into Calista as Calista was crying."We can't win..." Calista murmured to himself. Aku then got back upand was badly hurt."Let all rush him at once." Aku said toward Allen and Calista. Allenand Calista got up as Calista started forming boulders with her one hand toNegative while Allen formed fire beneath his feet and started flying towardNegative aiming his fire beam attack toward Negative. Aku then startedflying toward Negative while Negative blocked Aku's attack while he got hitwith Allen's fire beam attack. Negative was covered in smoke."We're winning!" Allen said joyfully as the smoke cleared while Calistastarted shooting her boulders at Negative but it barely affected him."Is that all your weaklings have for me!" Negative said while laughing."We can't win..." Calista murmured to herself as she was holding herhead.Spira began to make her move. Negative noticed the rise of powerbehind him. Spira cracked her hands together. "You're quite strong," Negative sensed. Spira charged up her light.Negative was engulfed in dark energy.Meanwhile, Cadell watched Spira and Negative prepare to do battle.He would've liked nothing more than to help his friend, but he was inphysical and emotional turmoil. His fight with his father had left himbattered, bruised, and burnt, with ash still clinging to his now-shirtless body.He tried to get up off his knees, but only fell back down. He gritted his teeth,sucking back whatever tears had tried to seep into his eyes, and tried tostand up agai, this time succeeding. He steeled himself for the battleahead. He knew full well that Negative was out of his league, but he'd bedamned if that stopped him from trying.Spira and negative clashed. Powerful shockwave echoed throughoutthe world. Light vs darkness. Each hit between the two blew debris acrossthe battlefields. The ground underneath the two was shattering by thesecond. Negative attempted to headbutt Spira. Spira repelled from hisattack. Blood leaked down her forehead. Spira attempted to hit Negative'spressure points with the palms of her hands but his muscles were toodense. Negative then kicked Spira to the ground. She flipped up andwrapped her body around his arm. Spira then twirled and kicked Negativeon the right side of his cheek. Negative stepped back and then elbowed herin the stomach. Spira landed onto the ground and fired a light beam atNegative's face. Negative activated his shield ability. The beam wasredirected and blasted through several mountains. Negative then stompedonto the ground.Negative covered his fists with Nuclear fission liquid and fire. He thenlaunched a punch. Spira created a light shield and blocked the attack.Negative continued to punch rapidly. Spira was being crushed into theground. Negative then used planetary crash with his hands. Gravityfocused around his hands and then slammed onto Spira's shield and brokeit. Spira grunted. She went for an uppercut. Spira was emitting tons of lightenergy. Negative blocked the attack with his shoulder and then kneed herin the stomach. Blood spewed from her nose and mouth as she wasknocked back.Spira jumped back. A beam of light shot from the clouds and landedonto Spira. Spira closed her eyes. Yellow markings formed around her eyesand made her body glow. White threads wrapped around her andconnected until a white with golden royal swirls formed on it and wasemitting a bright glow. Spira was gaining her justifiable clothing. She wassummoning light from the light dimension. Spira unlocked all the powersshe could. The pressure around her made the atmosphere thick. Goldenclouds swirled above her. Spira's body bulked up. Electricity formed aroundNegative.The two clashed against each other at intense speeds. They wouldmove new locations around the battlefield every microsecond. Each impactfrom their bodies connecting would create a sonic boom along with a gustof high speed wind. Negative created an energy ball and blasted it towardsSpira. She deflected his ball. A large nuclear-like explosion emitted acrossthe earth, several miles away. Spira punched Negative in the stomach. Hethen kicked her into the ground. Spira rose from the crater. More energyboosted from her body. She flew up into the air and punched Negative intothe upper atmosphere. Negative covered his body in flames. The twoclashed their hands back to back rapidly. They continued flying through theair. Spira kicked Negative into near space. Negative then punched Spira inthe face and then Negative punched her chest and then stomach andgrabbed her face and flew downwards towards the earth like a fallingmeteor. Spira wrapped around his body and kicked Negative in the back.Negative then looked back and fired his eye laser. Spira blocked the attackwith a shield; the explosion caused smoke to fill the area. Spira dashedthrough the smoke. Negative teleported and back handed Spira to theground.Negative's hand became blue. The nuclear flames that came fromRaijin's DNA fueled Negative's body. Spira filled her fists with light energy.The two fists clashed. Negative was pushed back. Spira gritted her teeth tothe point blood leaked from her gums. Negative's body was bulking upmore. He was still getting stronger and absorbing energy from the portal inthe sky. Negative overcame her attack and sent her flying in the ground.Spira looked up. Dark purple and red aura surrounded Negative. He crashlanded on the rocky ground. Spira's power was far weaker than Negative."Just stop, you have lost," Negative says with a smile. Spira crumblesto her knees. The power of a justifiable wasn't enough. Spira chantedunder her breath."With the power in me. I contact thou light. For the goodness withinme. With all purity and life. With sins that shall do no harm. Help me defeatthis evil. Give me strength, beauty, passion and love. Give hope, wipe alldespair. Leave flowers, roses, butterflies. Ladybugs. I call upon thee light topunish those who have wrong, punish those who taint," Spira said toherself.The clouds began to glow again once more. Light engulfed her body.A shockwave of light energy shot from her back. Negative and Wrathshielded their eyes. The earth was lighting up. Spira stood up. With a fiercelook and with determination in her eyes. She called upon the lightdimension once more. The light behind her began to reshape intobutterfly-like wings that hovered behind her. Streaks of yellow and goldenfilled her veins and the pores of her skin. Spira's hair slowly became blondeand longer. Yellow lightning shot from her new aura in all directions.Negative was surprised and then powered up to match her.Cadell, meanwhile, looked down at his body and noticed greenmarkings appearing in his skin. His eyes once again became yellow,replacing his normal blueish-green. He remembered similar markingsforming on his father before their final clash and knew that they signified asignificant increase in power, whatever that entailed exactly. He feltsuddenly rejuvenated and ready to fight. And so, in an instant, he ran overto Spira's side.Neither of them said a word, they understood that this was not thetime for talk. This was the time for action.A glowing green bo staff materialized in his hands. That's new,though Cadell, he quickly did away with those thoughts and prepared forbattle."Well, now maybe this will be more of a challenge," remarkedNegative confidently, whose arms were lazily crossed in front of him.Cadell and Spira both dashed forward at Negative, who uncrossedhis arms and took up a fighting position. Spira arrived first, and Negativeblocked her first punch, but Cadell came in with a flurry of quick bo staffstrikes before he could capitalize. Negative grunted in frustration andswung at Cadell, but Cadell ducked the blow and Spira jumped over him,kicking Negative in the face.Cadell tried to sweep Negative's leg out from under him with his staff,but Negative lifted up his legs to avoid the sweep. However, Spiracapitalized on his distraction by hitting him in the side with a roundhousekick to his side, a knee to the chest, and an elbow across the face.As negative drew back his fist for a retaliatory punch, Cadell slammedhis bo staff up into his jaw, and Spira palm struck him in the chest, causinghim to stagger back.Negative snarled and fired off his eye bams. Spira ducked them,while Cadell parried the beams with his bo staff, which, to his delight, couldabsorb and redirect energy, energy which he redirected directly intoNegative's chest.Spira then hit Negative with a flying knee to the jaw and a kick to thechest. Negative retaliated with a backfist, knocking Spira aside, but Cadellthrew his bo staff like a javelin right into Negative's chest. The hard light bostaff passed right through Negative's body, blood shooting out of theentrance and exit wounds like a sprinkler.Negative roared in pain and dropped down to his knee. "That'senough!" he roared.He slammed his fist into the ground, sending a shockwave throughthe air, knocking them both off-balance. He then flew forward and grabbedboth Spira and Cadell by the face.He flew only two feet above the rocky ground and slammed them intoit, sending rocky debris up into the air as he tore two parallel gashesthrough his land with the bodies of his two current enemies. He slammedCadell into a large boulder, taking him through the entire rock beforecontinuing his flight.Spira repeatedly punched up into Negative's face, while Cadellwrapped his hand around negative's wrist. A pulse of green energy beganemitting from beneath Cadell's hands, and, in a large burst of energy,Cadell freed himself from Negatuve's grasp with the use of the expulsiontechnique.Negative and Spira were both sent up into the air, at which pointNegative hurled Spira into the ground and followed her down, punching herin the face and ramming her in the ground. Spira threw him off of her with ablast of light, sending him back up into the air.Cadell propelled himself up through the air to meet Negative, but hecaught Cadell's extended foot, turned his body over his shoulder, andhurled Cadell back down into earth, clouds of dust and debris flying upwhen Cadell hit the ground.Spira shot a trio of golden light arrows up at negative, who easilyavoided them, before diving down to attack the girl who had dared opposehim. Spira put up a light shield as Negative drew closer, and he bounced offof it when he hit, but he still came in with enough force to shatter the shieldas well.A pair of golden lions leapt forth to tear Negative asunder, but hevaporized them with a quick blast from his eye beams. However this hadbeen little more than a distraction from Spira, and she came rocketingtowards Negative, drop kicking him in the chest, before dropping down tothe ground and doing a series of fluid Capoeira-style kicks to his upperbody and face.As Spira got back up to her feet, Negative came in for a hit, but Spiraavoided the blow. However, Negative spun around and hit Spira with apowerful spinning back kick to the stomach Spira raised her arms to block afollow-up punch from Negative, but the force was still enough to send hersliding back several feet.Then, suddenly, Cadell ran in from the side, grabbed Negative andsuplexed him onton toe hard ground. Cadell and Negative both scrambledto their feet, where Cadell landed a hard front kick and crescent kick,before receiving a series of brutal counterpunches after Negative caught anextended fist intended to make contact with his face. Negative attempted tokick Cadell in the side, but the young martial artist grabbed the leg andthrew him to the ground, but Negative, defying the laws of physics, flewback up into the air and drove his foot into Cadell's face, throwing him upinto the air.Both fighters were thrown up into the air, but Negative landed first,just ahead of Cadell. As Cadell fell back down to Earth, Negativeuppercutted his body, sending him rocketing back into the air. High up inthe air, a green and gold aura began to surround Cadell's arms, and hebegan punching as fast as he possibly could, sending a deluge of fireballsdown on Negative, an angry snarl drawn across his face and he let out aloud war cry.Negative sent out his eye beams to intercept as many of the fireballsas he could, bowling them up mid-air but the area around him was stillblown to smithereens. Using the wind powers he'd gained from BraydenPatil, Negative began whipping up strong currents of air, trying to blowCadell out of the sky. But Cadell did him one better and, just as his fatherhad done, harnessed the wind and created a massive, swirling tornado ofgreenish air. Chunks of rock and other debris were being torn from theground and, for a brief moment, Negative felt a twinge of concern in theback of his mind. However, this only pushed him to try and eradicate thistwinge with extreme prejudice.He shot into the air, firing his eye beams at Cadell, blowing up amassive lasiad as it was thrown at him. Cadell threw two more lasiads atNegative and mustered all of the energy within him, preparing for one,massive kick he hoped would send him crashing back down to Earth.However, much to Cadell's dismay, a blue liquid began formingaround Negative's hand. It was Nuclear Fission! Cadell dodged back asNegative drew closer, before judging back down and kicked Negativedirectly in the chest with all of us might.Negative grunted, more from frustration than pain, as he was flungback down to the ground. However, he was not out of this fight yet, not by along shot. Once again using the powers of Brayden Patil, he shot a blast ofwind at the ground that was by far more powerful than anything the originaluser could have mustered. Negative, his fist glowing blue, was once againsent rocketing up at Cadell.Cadell, meanwhile, only reacted in time to see Negative coming athim, before his glowing fist was buried into his stomach. Blood shot out ofhis mouth and he knew, from what little medical knowledge he'd gainedfrom Cheryl, that he was now suffering from internal bleeding. He folded inaround Negative's fist and was sent high up into the sky, where he wentlimp and tumbled back down through the air, till he landed back down inEarth, sending dust and debris high up in the sky.As the dust settled around him, the green marks on Cadell's skinfaded, and his yellow eyes returned to their normal blue. While he laywounded in the rubble, Negative drew closer."You think you're strong?" he demanded, his voice angry, "you thinkyou can challenge me?" He spread his arms out wide, as if inviting him totake another shot.Cadell, it seemed, tried to accept this invitation, and got up onto oneknee, with a pained grunt and gasp."Oh, he's still got some fight left in him, huh?" Negative continued,closing the gap between him and Cadell and punching him in the face,sending him back to the ground.Cadell once again tried to rise up, but a swift kick to the face fromNegative quickly ended his attempt. His vision was fading, Cadell knew thathe was on the edge of unconsciousness, or perhaps even death.Then, suddenly, before Negative could beat Cadell to a pulp, Spirawent for a blast attack while Negative was distracted. Negative glancedover and teleported behind Spira. As she was caught off guard, Negativeplaced his hand on Spira's back and fired a dark beam of energy. Thebeam blasted through her stomach. Her eyes widened as all life drainedfrom her at once. The light energy around her dissipated. Blood spilled fromher mouth and from her organs. She fell to the ground. Blood dripped in alldirections. Everyone around the battlefield was in shock."Spira!" Cadell desperately called out to his friend, as her lifelessbody toppled to the ground. "No..." he said, his voice trailing off to a hushedsilence.Lust fired a dark beam which was reflected by Negative's shield.Calista charged in. Calista formed two large boulders and fired them atNegative. Negative stomped on the ground and caused a large shock wavethat destroyed the meteors in seconds. Negative then dashed at Calista.Negative incased his hands with nuclear fission and backhanded Calista.Her sides were completely burnt to a crisp as she was sent flying severalfeet. Both Raijin and Allen ran to Calista's side. The tide to the battle waschanging. Negative unleashed a wave of energy that completelydisintegrated the externals.Raijin gritted his teeth. The family he worked so hard to protect andmake happy was dying. His eyes were glowing yellow. Flames eruptedfrom his body. Raijin had one thing on his mind which was to defeatNegative. Dark energy swarmed around Raijin. His body was reconnectingto the Dark dimension much like his father. Nuclear fission flames engulfedthe area. Raijin's hair spiked out. His muscles grew bigger. With tears ofanger, his flesh began to tear, showing lava like liquid moving underneaththe skin. Electricity fired off in all directions. Black and orange armor formedaround him. Raijin was subconsciously creating a new type of GallionArmor like Deion. Raijin gripped his sword as flames wrapped around hisblade. A cape entirely made from flames flowed behind Raijin. Allenthought back to his moment's with Calista. Flaming wings bursted fromAllen's back.Cadell blinked away his tears as he staggered up to his feet. He castone last look over at Spira's dead body, before closing his eyes and bowinghis head. But, just then, the green markings came back, and his eyes onceagain became yellow.Cadell looked down at his body and saw a glowing green set ofgreaves protecting his shins, and a matching pair of gauntlets on hisforearms. A pair of shoulder pads, also glowing green appeared on hisshoulders, and his chest was covered in wrappings that matched. Aglowing sword then appeared in his right hand. A small smile creeped ontohis lips.Perhaps this battle wasn't over yet.