Cross Worlds (Hiatus)

Chapter 58-1: "Fantasy, Fate, and Reality"

Any bit of conscious thought Riku Reality had left is gone. All that's left of him now is a shell of power, fueled by nothing but rage and sorrow. When he looks up and sees Artemis and Riku Fantasy hovering in the air, he immediately attacks. He holds up his hand, instantly gathering magic into his hand and several glowing orbs form all around him. "Get ready!" Riku Fantasy takes a stance with his gunblade, and Artemis does the same with her wrist blades.

Reality fires a barrage of beams at the two, from every single orb he's created, as well as one massive one from his palm. Fantasy instantly jumps forth, coating his arms in metal and crystal and swinging his blade with all his might, deflecting Reality's main beam off into the sky. It doesn't take long for the beam to explode. However, the other smaller beams are much faster, coming at Fantasy from every which direction.

Artemis calls upon her magic, summoning dozens of stars to intercept Reality's attack. Though her stars do get deleted almost instantly, she's able to make them persist just long enough to cancel out Reality's beams. "Thanks!" Fantasy calls out before gathering magic into his gunblade and firing a magically enhanced beam of energy from it. Reality swings his blade and deletes the beam with ease, "teleporting" and appearing right before Fantasy in an instant. "Fuck!" Fantasy quickly blocks with his arms as Reality smacks him to the ground with one of his wings. Obviously, the metal and crystal around his arms are instantly deleted due to making contact with Reality's magic.

Fantasy manages to catch himself by controlling the wind around him and softening up the earth below him into a softer dirt, weakening the impact of his crash landing. "We aren't going to be able to deal any damage to him at all like this..."

Riku Reality doesn't move from his place in the sky. Instead, he aims his palm down at Riku Fantasy, charging up yet another string of magic energy orbs. However, he doesn't notice the massive, bright star in the sky above him. Fantasy doesn't realize it at first either, for it's almost completely cloaked by the sun's light directly above Reality. Fantasy and Artemis don't have to exchange any words. With the help of his elemental magic, Fantasy's able to move even faster than Sorey (using the same elements Sorey uses, as well as the energy element now that he's on his home world, allows him to do this), easily avoiding Riku Reality's attack.

Riku Fantasy then charges straight for Reality, cloaking himself completely in darkness. That's Artemis' signal to fly up above Reality, getting his attention with a few quick swipes of her wrist blades. Just as Reality is about to attack her, Artemis swipes her arm down, diverting his attention as the star in the sky shines brighter than ever. Riku Reality quickly looks up at the sky and "teleports" up to the star, immediately swinging his blade up at it and cutting the star in half with his magic. At least, that's what he appears to do.

As the two halves of the star fall, Reality seems to be genuinely confused for a moment, until the star fully breaks apart into dozens of smaller stars. He has no time to react as they all glow brightly and burst, completely blinding him. Riku Fantasy and Artemis move together, both cloaked in Fantasy's darkness. Fantasy first launches Artemis at him, using his element to launch her quickly and forcefully. Crossing her blades, she manages to strike Reality with both of them as she flies past him. Just before the Artemis' flashbang ends, Fantasy flies to Reality himself, cloaking his blade in darkness and using the light of the flashbang to increase the magic power of his sword swing.

Fantasy strikes Reality in the gut with his blade, spinning around to raise him up, and then dragging him along with the swing of his blade, swiping down with a loud battle cry. With the help of many elements, he's able to greatly increase the strength and speed of his swing, effectively sending Riku Reality rocketing into the ground with a massive impact. It's then that the flashbang effect finally ends, Riku Fantasy panting as he watches the ground. "That won't be nearly enough..."