Enter The Ninjaverse

CHAPTER 30

Flames continued to burst through the darkness of the deep sinkhole as Neuro's group fought for their lives. The Vermillion continued to swarm over them, not letting them catch their breath. The only wind that was moving through them was Bansha furiously throwing aside bursts of wind from her hands, throwing warriors back into the hardened surface of the ground they stood on. Vermillion would fall down into the floor, cracking open holes and plunging into the mud deep below. They would crawl back out, dripping and demonic in appearance as they stalked towards the group to attack once more.

Ash threw several punches towards Blunck, who either dodged or used his weapon to block them. Ash had already determined just through this alone that Blunck had no special abilities, and was instead just an incredibly powerful Vermillion that was able to keep pace with his constant turning into smoke and attacking from all directions. He would let himself be rather impressed, if Blunck wasn't completely calm the entire fight about trying to kill them. The other Smoke Tribe members were quick to fall into line with their leader, hissing along with Ash as they all threw themselves into Blunck.

Neuro remained hunched over on the ground, rubbing his temples and trying to clear the noise from his skull. His head was still throbbing with the multitude of voices that were flaring through him. No matter what he did, he couldn't seem to force them out. It was as though he'd poked a hole inside of a bag underwater, and now he was helpless to stop the flood coming in to take over his head.

"What do we do?!" A fire user swung their curved dagger into a Vermillion. When he tried to pull it back, the Vermillion grabbed the hilt and the snakes absorbed it into their mass. The user let go just before his hand could be swallowed by the mass.

"Keep fighting!" Shade shouted, "You all represent your tribes, don't you?!"

Shade followed this up by appearing from another shadow, using his stolen Vermillion sword and stabbing one in the back. He grabbed the warrior's blade as it broke apart, tossing the sword to the smoke user. The user quickly turned and blocked an incoming attack, giving a grunt of gratitude towards Shade.

Bansha, however, wasn't thinking on the same wavelength that Shade was. Instead, she was looking up towards the circle of light high up above them. She could easily fly up there herself and perhaps two others, but she knew there were almost thirty of them here. It wouldn't be possible for her to do that and still make it down for the last in line in time.

"Neruo," Bansha blasted more warriors back as she hissed violently to the downed leader, "Get up! We need you right now!"

"The... the voices..." Neuro clutched his head, "So many... so many voices... I can't... can't think of... where I start, where they end..."

Bansha growled and shot her head up. She couldn't get them out of here like this. She needed them to do something. She needed a distraction, needed something to think. She looked around to the users. None of them had any time to fight. They were desperately doing all they could not to be immediately thrown onto the ground and taken out.

"Neuro, get up!" Bansha reached down with one hand, dragging him up to his feet by his collar, "You can't space out right now! You're going to get everyone killed if you don't man up right now and help in this battle!"

Neuro still had a glazed look in his eyes. Bansha's temper flared up and she felt a vein in her forehead throbbing. With a hand she had been using to fight, she turned it towards Neuro and blasted Neuro directly in the face. The force snapped his head back and blew his hair violently out behind him. She held the blast until she felt he wouldn't be able to breathe anymore. When she stopped, he was rattled.

"Unlike you, I have a tribe that needs me to survive, Neuro!" Bansha dragged Neuro down to face her, "I'm not even ordained by my dragon yet and I'm here, fighting for these tribes! Either focus right now and start working with me, or I'll throw you out to those warriors right now myself!"