The Fall and Rise of the Last Talisman.

Chapter 7: Glimmer of Hope

The entire classrooms were in flames. The ceiling was crumbling. Jumu saw a few of the students get burnt by the flames from the top of the building. He attempted to try and rush in to save them, but something was stuck on his foot. "Hmph, that's far enough. I know you mean well, and I am sure you have other people to save but these children are none of your business. So, let them burn. Hear the screams, hear the pain and suffering that they feel." Incarose seemed to have been trying to educate Jumu to not save anyone. She pressed her high heels onto Jumu's feet further to the point where she could see his own heel bleeding from the amount of pressure, she was pushing on him. "Argh! That hurts!" Jumu shouted in pain. He wasn't thinking clearly and felt like he was being crushed. "Oh, I'm sorry, am I hurting you? What? Were you hoping I wouldn't be angry? The reason I am angry is because you've ruined time for everyone and the fact that you still breathe and continue to correct your mistakes makes it even worse. It is disgusting that I must talk in the same room as you. Don't you find that agonizingly annoying?" Incarose said feeling very angered. She wouldn't stop pressing down on his heel further feeling happy to hear the cries and pain of Jumu on the floor.

Jumu grabbed his magical reactor and while putting his blade in it, it looked to be filled with seven elements this time around. "I'm not the same person as I was before. So, I won't lose to the likes of you." Jumu said feeling confident about killing Incarose. "All I need is for you to get the hell out of my way and stop trying to put innocent lives in danger for your own benefit! Why don't you people listen to anything I say!?!?" Shouted Jumu in distress. He got up with such extreme strength and grabbed the blade instantly and swung the blade in a very circular motion. He grabbed the dagger and connected it to the blade he had, creating a Piercer Blade similar to what inca had. He rushed in and attacked her from the bottom to the front and all the way to the top. "Impossible....you are a mere human being, yet you pierced my armor! No mortal has even come close to damaging me. You are something else!" Inca shouted with anger and felt irritated.

"Thanks to you, we're busier than usual. This doesn't come as a surprise, so it probably isn't big or huge news to you Jumu. You were a fool to challenge us head on. With skills like that, it's no wonder all the Gods hate on you so much for doing such a terrible thing to not only this universe, but to others and with skills such as yours, it's only natural you wouldn't be at the top like us." Incarose transformed. She threw off her armor and then decided to use a knife and break her emblem within her head as blood splattered allover the floor. She drilled it all the way towards her membrane and chose to let all the left-over dead skin and fresh blood take over. Her eyes now crimson red, she arms started becoming blood-like. She was becoming a full-fledged chaos mage. Her first transformed form fully developed. She felt refreshed."Are you enjoying what you see? Because the next thing I'm going to do to you is going to worse than what a God will ever do to you! PREPARE YOURSELF, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" She zoomed quite fast and used the extension of her tail and started blasting beams of darkness at Jumu at such a long distance. She punched him, threw him on the ground and at one point incinerated his body or it least attempted to. "Gyahaha! Don't you see? Don't you feel it? IT"S LOVELY! People say they don't know what hate feels like, until it grows on you. What? Are you going to quote some Love bullshit and try to educate me that what I am doing is bad? Well, maybe YOU are the one who needs to educate yourself! Doing whatever I want, whenever I want, however I WANT is what makes me who I am! Ahahahaha! How wonderful! Your screams, your pain, your suffering, it truly makes me feel happy to see it all happen to you. Who the hell cares if everyone does evil! So what?! Just imagine what of happened if you hadn't interfered with me destroying the school, the children in it and their lives! I just need to kill you and our mission will be completed once and for all! Don't even try to lecture me, you piece of shit! All you're is just garbage who stinks of defeat! You're just a roadblock! So, Jumu... Your last moments will be with me!" Incarose chuckled and laughed like a madman. She was no longer sane. She allowed insanity to take over her. All that was left of her was the horsemen part of her subconscious. A pure killer. Her aura was menacing and truly sinister. "HOW CAN SOME WORTHLESS PIECE OF TRASH, BE SPECIAL THAN ME!?!? This is all meaningless! I won't let you get your happy ending and walk away like nothing ever happened!!! Oh, my. This truly is great.I may finally be able to take your head and bring it to quarters and profit against your corpse because of how much bounty we have against you! Hahahaha!! I've never felt like this before at all! I don't care about these people, I don't even care about human life nor what they do with their pathetic lives. All I care about is killing you and these pathetic school children because it will be something that will put a smile on my honest to god face! It's all to prove I am better than you and your rotten friends!!!" Incarose officially  insanity on a whole other level. That was no pun intended of course.

Silver and Koi and Jumu braced for whatever was going to come next and after."We got our hands full this time guys, let's try and come up with a plan on how to beat her." Koi suggested as his body was trembling because of how much power he could feel from her. How much hatred and rage was being built up inside of her until now was beyond them to comprehend. "What malice..." Silver said feeling sad that she did this to herself. Jumu felt the pain given to him and saw his body bleed from death. Koi and Silver used their weapons on Incarose and did the best they could to fight her off but,this was too much for them. They couldn't have fathomed how much power she was putting off. "Jumu....you can't die on us... you're all we have... there isn't a team without you. You must pull through. You have to be able to push back the evil." Koi and silver said trying to give Jumu confidence on defeating her. Defeating what was now left of Incarose now.

Jumu's corpse looking lifeless wasn't moving. The Magical Reactor seems to have been enlarging in size and turning into a spiritual circle suddenly. Jumu's body falls in it and enters a new world. He could hear voices. "Destiny is punishing you." The voice reaches out to Jumu. "Human. Mortal. Blood and Flesh. Mistakes, we all make them. Though things have been unjust and unfair to you and therefore has become difficult for you to manage a future that is unreachable. If you can still hear my voice, then you still may have a chance to prevail and survive. For that, I give you my gift." The voice revealed its wings. The wings fold in an extensive position and while Jumu felt the feathers of those wings, he could feel a surge of power. "I've given you the lost power of the Last Talisman. Use it as you see fit, save this world and bring an end to this chaos that is broken. Restore our world."Jumu felt like he was a new man. Jumu was sent back to the world he knew. He was back in Concordia. "I'm not the same man as I was before!" Jumu said confidently. Koi and Silver were relieved seeing Jumu back on his feet and breathing well.

Incarose felt resentful for hearing such bold words coming out of his mouth. She couldn't help but feel interested in ending Jumu's life once and for all."Keep that shit to yourself! You cannot beat me. You are not powerful enough so don't even think of making that shitty excuse and acting all tough. Your future was locked away after you found me!" She grabbed her twin blades and charged at Jumu with all her strength. She compiled all strength in this one blow. "Dieeeeee!" She said as she attempted to kill jumu with this single shot.

The ground rumbled. The flames swayed. The buildings toppled to the ground. The students or at least what was left of them were dead.However, Jumu was different. He looked and acted differently. Inca's arm didn't directly hit his head. It somehow stopped mid-point and was close to where his cheek was and that was quite an accomplishment for Jumu. "Does it feelgood to hurt others? Does it feel good to destroy people's creations? Does it feel good to persecute and execute whoever and whatever you feel like without any consequences of your actions? To you, the answer wouldn't matter because you were born to do these things and you probably wouldn't care what consequences meant if it meant stopping that trail of lies that was following your path before you became who you were. Living in the past is like living inside of one's prison. Hate is a poison and you are the one who is eating it up like it's some kind of fruit that'll cure cancer. I know I'm not the only one who thinks what you are doing is wrong. You would not have become a Horsemen if you didn't decide to cast away your emotions; so, you could feel what others felt if you just understood how others acted. Men and woman aren't trash. We are judged by our past mistakes because enemies want to feel like they are the winners and that we are the losers. Should you have kept well enough alone,maybe humanity, the good part of it would have been able to evolve and direct a peaceful path to how the world could have looked like in the greater future. I too, feel your pain." Jumu's eyes turned golden and a single punch was a power hit which eroded and annihilated all her armor in one shot as the punch was too painful for her to bare. He could see Incarose on the ground screaming as her blood cells started attacking each other. While a lack of blood cells wasn't a huge concern for Incarose, she still had enough blood to keep going on and to end the life of a hero that the world was cheering. She needed this win. She couldn't fathom to let this freak overtake her.

Jumu felt confident now. He was feeling fresh and new."Round two. I expect you still have some juice left. Savor it while it lasts because this time. I'm coming at you with all I have. I needed that brief sacrifice. All you did was make me stronger. Let's do this once and for all and see who the real victor in this battle is." The two of them clashed with blades and a flash of bright light appeared and the flames engulfed them throughout the fight. The school was burning down, and the fire only got worse as the battle progressed. This truly was a battle to the death...