The Apocalypse 2: Rise of Zephiles [The Original]

Ch. 30

"There's no way you can win, Jason." Crystal Mephiles said. "Your fate is sealed." "I don't believe that." Jason said. "Your future can change depending on your current actions." "True." Mephiles said. "But I had already predeterminedyour actions when forming my plan. Everywhere you go has been thought out and everything you do has been planned. There's no escaping what is, Jason. I have formulated the perfect plan." "We'll see." Jason said. "I can still kill you." "Not if you can't touch me." Mephiles said. "What do you--" Jason started to ask. Mephiles rose up and then dove at Jason's shadow. Jason looked down and saw his shadow turn into the silhouette of Mephiles. "Now that's not fair!" Jason yelled. Just then a stream of dark energy rose out from Mephiles and circled the room. Once it had finished creating a ring around the fighting area, it started to form Mephiles clones. "And neither is that!" he yelled. "Come on!" "What's the matter, Jason?" Mephiles asked. Jason looked down. "Afraid you're going to lose?" "No." Jason answered. "It's just that by doing this... it makes you look like a coward." "We'll see who the coward is once my clones have mopped the floor with you." "Ooh." Jason taunted. "I'm so scared." "Attack!" Mephiles ordered his clones. The ring of Mephiles clones rose up and darted at Jason one by one. Jason shot balls of fire at them. He wiped out about 5 of them. 95 clones remained. Two more swooped down and tried to claw his face but Jason grabbed their arms and slammed them together. Then he threw them to the ground and finished them off with a light energy attack. 93 clones remained. "This is gonna take a while." Jason thought aloud. Six clones came running at him, shooting dark energy attacks. Jason dodged them and threw some debris at them using psychokinesis. The debris took out three of them and the others kept coming. Jason then launched three fireballs at the remaining ones and took them out. 87 clones remained. Two more came running at him, both carrying a copy of Mephiles sword. One of them swiped at Jason's neck and the other at Jason's feet. In order to dodge this, Jason had to do a mid-air spin in between the swords and then land on the ground. He the then grabbed them by the legs and tripped them. He stomped on their heads, causing them to burst into a cloud of smoke. 85 clones remained. He looked up above a group of 15 clones and saw one of the catwalks. He used psychokinesis to throw some debris at it. It fell, crushing the group and causing the pole that was holding it to the ceiling to fall, taking out two more. 68 clones remained. "Yeah!" Jason yelled, triumphantly. "Get some!" "Don't get too ahead of yourself, Jason." Mephiles said from Jason's shadow. "You still have 68 more to go." This time, Jason went on the attack. He charged a group of 10 clones. He slid under one as it was attacking, grabbed it by the leg, and swung it around, knocking the surrounding clones to the floor. Jason stood up and threw a fireball at two of them. Then the others got up and started throwing punches. Jason blocked them and occasionally launching a couple of fireballs, taking out the group. 58 clones remained. Jason was starting to get bored and irritated. He used psychokinesis to slid the fallen catwalk across the floor, taking out most of the remaining clones. Now only 20 remained. "I count only 20 left, Mephiles." Jason said. "This sure wasn't a challenge." "Just wait." Mephiles said. Jason noticed something weird. The remaining 20 clones were forming together to create a giant Mephiles. It stood about 5ft. taller than Jason. "You have got to be kidding me!" Jason yelled. "Will this never end?" "Oh, it'll end, Jason." Mephiles. "Once I've finally killed you!"