Illegalist Insurrection: An Unofficial TwoSet Adventure

Illegalist's Defeat

Look at what you've done, you monster, he muttered in his head, drawing himself to full height.

Illegalist nearly roared, shapelessly ambling across the torn field of trees. "She really thought that would damage me, eh? What a buffoon she is, getting into the middle of our discussion before I could DEMOLISH YOU—"

He'd barely finished when he was suddenly hit in the head so hard that the whiplash made him stumble and crack even more. A piece of him splintered like glass.

He made a hacking, hoarse sound, as if his lungs were clogged. "You—YOU," he snarled. "NO! HOW COULD YOU—"

He had no time to speak. For another fierce hit struck him again, and his outer shell disintegrated, leaving only a dark mass with the familiar glowing magma eyes. Garbled speech left his misshapen blob of a mouth. "HOw dARe—you, YoU insoLEnt fOoL—"

"Supreme Punishment, by Ling Ling's authority," boomed Legalist's voice over the rain and the wind, eyes glowing so bright they almost blinded the darkness itself. In his hand was a Hammer, much in the style of the Illegal Hammer. "Outer Banishment: HAVOC TEMPO."

It was as if some mysterious magic had completely overtaken his body, as if Ling Ling had finally heard his pleas and had granted his requests for help, as if he'd never been beaten down before in his lifetime. With every ounce of strength that he could muster in his body, he raised his newly minted Hammer and sent this final spell at Illegalist.

It happened in the blink of an eye.

Illegalist barely had the time to react, it was so fast—, hitting him right over the place where his heart would be in his misshapen figure. And it wasn't as if his agony was enough now, no. The overflowing fury which consumed him crackled and burned and hummed within his darkness until he let out a final, terrible roar; and a catastrophic explosion seared the air, a billowing earthquake spiking up the rocks from the ground.

And now, he was nothing—nothing but a floating, ashy pile of trembling matter in the air, glowering as Legalist loomed above him in the full glory of Ling Ling's aid.

As this half-existent Illegalist glared at Legalist in utter horror, he came to the sickening realization that he'd been beaten after all. GRRRAH! STUPID LOVE, STUPID LING LING, THESE MEASLY HUMANS, he bellowed weakly. ALWAYS USING 'THE POWER OF LUV' TO THEIR ADVANTAGE, THESE UTTER IDIOTIC, INFERIOR CREATURES, WHO MAKE ME WANT TO VOMIT!

It was unfortunately all the more true for him, though he desperately denied it. Hate could not drive him out. And it was dearest Aileana's sacrifice which had so allowed Legalist a channel to flush him out once and for all.

Legalist stopped glowing as he stood in front of Illegalist, save for his hand. "I should almost feel sorry for you," he muttered, flicking at the mass, sending his magic through it. "Now leave us alone. Forever."

And it was thus, with this final touch, that Illegalist shattered. Five broken shards, like mirrors on the ground, before they all disintegrated into the wind.