Virtuality: Magic Island

Chapter 7: The Fall of Lucinda

Reaperina's screams were so loud that it shook the ground. You would think it was an earthquake. Lontari and Axel were scared for their lives, their legs trembling and their hearts beating rapidly against their chests as if they were trying to break out. A black aura formed around her body from head to toe, much to Lontari's fear.

"Holy crap!" Lontari exclaimed.

The angry mage roared like an animal, and in her hands formed another scythe made of black energy. Without second thought, she raced towards her two opponents and started swinging the weapon back and forth like her life depended on it, grunting with each swing. Lontari swung his sword as well in order to deflect the sturdy scythe. However, Reaperina swung even harder, and smacked the weapon out of the boy's hand. He spun around and fell on his stomach with blood running down from his nostrils.

"You're done!" Reaperina yelled, positioning the scythe as if she were about to swing a baseball bat.

However, Axel thrusted his palms forward and thus launched two gleaming, orange spheres of fire. They simultaneously collided with Reaperina and burst into an explosion, pushing her to the ground. However, she jolted back up and let out a crazy yell at the top of her lungs, anger eating her up inside. A thick black aura formed around her as she opened her mouth as wide as possible, vomiting a massive blast of black energy that exploded on contact with Lontari and Axel.

The two went racing through the air and landed on their backs with hard thuds that kicked some dust up. They hissed in an effort to cope with the pain consuming their spines.

Reaperina laughed and barked, "You're so fucking weak!!" She was about to spit out another insult when her face suddenly turned sad, her eyes filling up with tears and her lips shaking. "I'm so sorry..." is what she said before she switched right back to her dark magic state. "You'll never take me down!"

"Aw man, she's strong!!" Lontari said.

"That's what Dark Magic does to you."

Lontari stared down at his palms. "Man... I used Dark Magic and even that's not enough..."

"Well, from my experiences," said Axel. "People possessed with this crude magic are strong to defeat, even if you use dark magic."

Reaperina laughed at the top of her lungs as the joy from hurting others filled the void inside her. She blast off into the sky and her hands began vomiting large, fiery black meteors made of magic. Buildings and houses burst into burning bits, fire was born into the street, smoke started to invade the air, along with screams and footsteps from people racing for their lives. Reaperina loved every second of this, or at least that's what it seemed like on the outside, but internally, she kept having thoughts of regret.

God, what the hell am I doing?!

In the meantime, Lucinda was back in her wooden room, staring at the shiny glass ball on her desk. Happiness and optimism danced inside her heart as Reaperina continued to relentlessly blow up everything her eyes saw, giving birth to floods of steaming hot fire.

"Yes... That's my girl..." she said. "That's my girl!!"

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Lontari and Axel ran down the streets, amazed at the horrible impact of Reaperina's rampage. Fire continued to eat up buildings, emitting the scent of burnt food. Screaming and crying people continued to race down the street, coughing from the horrible smoke-filled air. Some even tripped over untied shoelaces in a hurried attempt to flee to safety.

All while Reaperina continued to wreck the place. She laughed as she opened her mouth, unleashing a massive wave of sturdy black energy that washed away buildings like food remnants on a dirty plate. Pieces of woods, shards of glass, and screaming people all catapulted into the sky.