Chapter 17: Conflict Among Comrades

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(Author's Notes: The fight scene is made by my friend Michael Maritato and writing the fight scenes done by me. So let's give him credit where it's due.)

Narration: The team finally catches up to Seth,
and they see the aftermath of the fight. "SETH!"
Zoey and Yuzuhara yell.
The both of them were about to run towards him,
but Himiko stopped them with her hand. "Seth? What are you doing out here?" Selena asks.
Seth turns to the side and faces his comrades as he looks at all of them individually,
his aura is completely burgandy now. Selena puts her hand on her sword and not the one where she physically manifests her soul as one.
An actual ninjaken sword.

"Seth."
She prepares to draw it.
"I regrew my hands. I wanted to find the bastard and kill him."
The team braces themselves as they could all tell something was largely off with him.
"I see, and why are you glaring at us?" Selena steps forward as the team slowly drags out their weapons.
Causing Seth to back away and right as he goes to open his mouth,
the eyeball on the cross guard opens, and burgandy electricity pops around his head,
causing pain and him to grab the handel of sword to stop it.

Selena fully draws her sword just as Seth draws his.
"I don't need a team! I don't need y'all to kill him! This sword...... it makes me a better fighter! A better and stronger ME!"
Selena motions for everyone to either get out of the way or keep going. Alexander and Himiko take charge of the operation and motions for everyone to follow.
The team starts scaling the metal construction that they can and climbs up it further up the mountain.
"Is that so? Then you should be able to beat me, right? If not, then that just means you're still too weak, doesn't it?"

Selena,
in her own way,
reasons with Seth and for a few moments,
gets him to look at the sword as if he knows deep down,
he is still too weak.
The sword stuns Seth's head again, stimulating his brain to release the anger chemical.
"Come on! Prove it, Seth, cause honestly you still look too weak to me."
The electricity stops popping around Seth,
making his brain pump as much anger into his body as possible and verbally lash out.
"I'm not weak!"

Seth charges at Selena,
and vertically slashes,
Selena dodges back and right as Seth's sword is about to hit the ground.
It stops mid swing and turns into a thrust!
Selena takes a step forward,
blocking the thrust and entering a sword bind with Seth.
Selena puts her free hand on the spine of the blade as Seth bares down with all his might,
causing Selena to get pushed back slightly.

Seth keeps stepping forward even though he could have turned his sword horizontal and sliced off Selena's fingers. Black tendrils shoot out from her waist area and hook into the ground,
so even though Seth is attempting to take steps forward,
Selena will not be pushed back.

Selena allows Seth's sword to slide down hers so when Seth's sword hits the ground, Selena slices Seth's neck, bringing her sword back and slashing through his bicep and tricep on his left arm. Seth heals just as quickly and manages to raise his sword back up, only to be slashed some more on his arms, chest,
and stomach.
Selena takes advantage of the weight of the sword,
and even though Seth is swinging it like a twig,
it still has weight to it.

Seth slams his sword into the ground as Selena dodges,
resulting in Seth moving away from the sword and punching and kicking Selena. Even though Selena used her sword to slash and block,
she still was kicked pretty hard in the stomach or punched in the jaw,
sending her stumbling back and a tendril to shoot out of her back to prevent her from falling.
Seth goes to pick up his sword,
but the moment he grabs it,
his hand gets shit off!

Seth turns to look at Selena,
who has smoke coming out of her gun. Seth reforms his hand and yanks the sword out of the ground,
swinging.
Selena tries not to engage in a sword fight,
but when Seth keeps closing the gap with his speed advantage,
she uses gun and sword style to dps his healing factor and get in some slashes or stabs.

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