The Caravan of Hope

Chapter 42: Cyborg

Left path~

"Found you!"

They were in the ballroom that they were in four years ago. Hearthfell had spotted the fleeing Xanolemnad, who turned his head to look at him, sighing. "Oh dear. I guess I'll have to fight you, even though I really didn't want to fight children.

He turned around, stopped, and readied himself with a fighting stance.

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Right path~

"Gotcha!" Daiko stopped herself in the middle of the road, ready to sing a fighting song.

Zaecondis found himself faced outside on a platform, nowhere to go sorry of committing suicide.

He bit his lip, turning himself to face her. "Great. Then again, I should've known that Miss Omniscient and Powerful would go after me. Oh well, here goes nothing."

He raised his hands.

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Left path~

Without hesitation, George attacked Xanolemnad. But Xanolemnad just carelessly kicked George, which sent George flying back.

Unfortunately, since George had no control of where to go when kicked back, and because he was surprised that Xanolemnad was able to kick him even though he had a lot of his magic on him, he accidentally hit Hearthfell really hard in the head while trying to land.

Hearthfell grabbed George's scarf, looking really pissed. "What was that for, knucklehead?"

"I can't control where I go, non bachelor!"

As one can see, four years didn't help their relationship at all.

Xanolemnad noticed that they were distracted, so he leapt at them with a high powered punch to George and a kick in Hearthfell's side. They went onto either side of the room, coughing up blood.

Mary screamed as Xanolemnad got up completely unharmed and headed straight toward her slowly.   She started to quickly write in her notebook, said activate, then lifted her hands as a big fireball appeared in them.

Xanolemnad's eyes widened as Mary's hands shook. With a little bit of difficulty, she threw the fireball at him.

Since he was surprised, he had to move quickly in order to it. But even with his incredible speed, he want fast enough to avoid it, and the fireball burned off the top right half of his face.

Mary was happy that she was able to hit him, but grew puzzled while he was getting up, for there were black birds swarming him, especially where he clutched at his wound with his hand. No, they weren't black birds; more like tiny black orbs of light that were shaped like birds (A/N: For those of you who read my short story, Red Eyed Master from the book Terror, these are the same birds Zane always saw).

Xanolemnad removed his hand, and George was on his right side, he was able to see Xanolemnad's burn. But as George was getting up from the place where Xanolemnad punched him to, he froze in horror.

He shook, because he could see what Xanolemnad was hiding. "Wha- what are you?"

Xanolemnad's entire right side where the fireball hit was now burned away, with the exception of his eye. But that wasn't what scared George. What scared him was that the fireball burned Xanolemnad's skin and revealed that there was metal underneath.

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Right path~

Daiko sang a song about a water ball and Zaecondis summoned a ice ball.