The City of Darkness

XV: Chaos!

"You asked for it!" Alice II shouted. She slashed at Pierce with sudden force, causing Pierce to bend back like a piece of licorice. Pierce played on this by tripping her and throwing her scythe away.

"Ha! Whatcha gonna do now, huh?" Pierce taunted.

"What I'm supposed to do." Alice II replied. She ran up to Pierce and it soon became a boxing match, but with both contender's arms moving at super speed. Consecutive blow for blow.

Meanwhile, next to the pier and our unconscious male hero....

"How could I have possibly even so blind...as to think.." said Sky. "That you could be Shard...THAT'S NOT FORGIVABLE!!! YOU LYING, CHEATING, BASTARD!!!!!" Sky ran toward Grafl at high speed and socked him in the face. He fell backward and wiped the blood off of his lip.

"Dang you're mean, babe." Grafl said. "Fangirls like you must be why Shard keeps going. Then again, he's probably just attracted to your body."

Sky gasped, and Leah stepped in front of her. "That's enough, you pompous ass." Leah said. "Leave her alone." She drew her sword and pointed it at him. "Let's dance."

"Aha! Hael of Thera! If that's how you wanna play it, sweetheart, then okay. But I don't use swords." Grafl pulled out a gun that looked like a cannon. It was jet black and blue, and sparked with mass electricity. "This is Ramós, my gun of thunder!"

"So what? I'll beat you no matter what weapon you have!!" Leah charged at Grafl, rage induced. She slashed at Grafl with a trail of ice being left behind.

Grafl brushed off the small cut in his shoulder and shot at Leah a concentrated ball of thunder. Leah anticipated an attack like that and knew what to do. She held up her sword, aligning perfectly with Grafl's line of fire. The thunder ball released from the gun, moving slowly through Leah's eyes.

Leah kept her stance, and when the thunder ball was in range, she sliced perfectly downward, cutting it in half. The halves fell to the ground and turned into dust with a fzzzt sound. Grafl looked utterly suprised, a bead of sweat rolling down his face. "OH YEAH?!?" He yelled. "TRY THIS ONE!!!" Grafl pointed his gun once more, and instead of a blue thunder ball, a white one appeared. And it started to charge up, growing bigger and bigger with each second passed. Until it became as large as a building, creating massive dust clouds around it.

Pierce and Alice II stopped and looked over at the three. Alice II nodded at Pierce for a temporary truce, and she yelled: "Grafl! What are you doing?!? That's too dangerous!"

"Stay out of this, lil' sis!" Grafl yelled back. Leah stood her stance, cool, calm, and collected. Even in the face of death, she can hold her emotions. Sky held her shoulder, then grabbed her sword.

"You ready?" Sky said.

"Let's do this!" Sky used her energy powers to charge up Leah's sword with energy, giving it a surrounding aura and a permanent boost in power. "I'll name this sword...Sky Breaker!"

"I'd prefer you didn't name it that.." Sky said.

"Fine. I'll name it Fallen."

"STOP IT, GRAFL!!!" Alice II yelled.

"Are you ready to see oblivion?" Grafl yelled at Leah and Sky. "BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE GOING!!!" Suddenly, Grafl fell to his knees, a cut through his leg. "You.....bastard.."

"I wouldn't call myself that." Shard said. "I'd say..slayer of evil."