Hyperdimension Neptunia | The Bound Warrior

Ch.7 A Bound Warrior's Enemy

Max's pov

I slowly traverse the cliff side, trying to sneak up upon the girl with the purple skin. Right next to her is a mouse and a large metallic box. the box seems familiar, And I know that is never a good sign, but still approach with an internal sigh.

As I near I silently summon my blade and am around ten feet away from the lady. I start listening in to what she is saying.

"I am arfoire. Im the one who'll bring the gospel of chaos of this world run by four brats." She says. The box beside Arfoire suddenly beeps and Arfoire suddenly stiffens up for some reason. "And lets complete this little party." all of the sudden cables launch from the ground and grab my arm.

I am hurled into the crater where the four CPUs are. How could she tell where I was?! Did she know the entire time.

"How did you know I was there!?" I demand, slashing away the cables wrapping around my arm.

"I knew you would come along. And i've prepared for it." Arfoire kicks the metallic box into the crater and it unfolds into a robot, it is armored and has four blades around its waist. A bot I recognize all too well.

"No, there is no way you could have survived!" I shout at the bot, which it gives a ghastly laugh, my voice filled with disbelief and anger.

"I was created to combat you warriors, you have no chance to destroy me! Just as your friends didnt." The robot says in a metallic/ghostly voice.

"Max, who is that?" Neptune/purple heart asks.

"A robot I thought long since destroyed. It goes by the name of general taranis. His main goal is exterminating bound warriors like me." I explain.

Suddenly the transformations the CPUs where in were deactivated. "Oh, yeah, I forgot, your running against the clock." Arfoire says.

"But first you have to go throu-" taranis is cut off by nepgear which I hear from a cliffside. "Neptune!"

This distracted taranis, and I took it to my advantage and charged forward. When my blade was mere inches from him, he grabbed my hand. I was caught off guard by this, Which taranis laughs at. Before I could react to that even he throws me over his should and into the ground.

I flip myself up and taranis took off the cloak he was wearing and his two arms that then splits into four and grab the blades that he held at his waist. With the four blades he wielded, his hands spun in a circular motion which caused the earth below him to split and get thrown around. I curse void engineering, purposefully choosing to create a star wars, greivous design.

I jump over taranis and slash at him only to meet with his four blades. "If you think you are going to have an easy time you have another thing coming!" He informs me as his raw strength throws me off balance.

I have to think of something and fast. I launch at him and dodge his blades. I slash at him and am met by one of his blades, then I see markings on one of the blade he wielded. Another one of his blades rakes my back and arm. I leap back.

"that blade..." Im at a lost at what to say, That blade looks exactly like one I know. 

General taranis laughs and shows all four blades to me. "Recognize them? you should. After all, you would be a bad leader if you didnt recognize your own crew's blades."

"max, what is he-" noire starts asking before I cut her off.

"I was once a leader of a group of bound warriors. Those blades belong to them!" I direct that last part to taranis.

My rage rises higher then ever before. I charge at a speed as fast as sound and destroy one of the arms on taranis.

I start to charge again but taranis already saw what I was doing and dodges while a mace that belonged to one of my men hits me in the leg. I collide with the floor and roll/fly all the way to the pyrimid that the CPUs are held in. I took a severe amount of damage from that attack, I start assessing the damage. my left shoulder is popped out of place and my right arm and chest are bleeding from a semi-shallow wound. I think I sprained my foot too. I stand up and see that taranis weld his arm back on and charges at me. I use the pyramid to gain some height and slash down on taranis with all I got. I notice out of the corner of my eye the small mouse that was with arfoire is recording this fight. And that IF and nepgear are also watching.