Post by Glace on Apr 24, 2017 21:16:23 GMT -6
Chapter 9:
The first casualty was Alteron, former Toa of Plasma. The chain flicked towards him as he took several shots at his opponent with his SMG-like weapon in hand. He instinctively put his massive tower shield up to defend himself, but the chain wrapped around the shield and its user easily. The blade pierced the poor former Toa, but Nyxos wasn’t finished. A single tug of the chain rendered Alteron unrecognizable, the lifeless shell falling to the ground.
The second to fall was Vivate, former Toa of Iron, and Viserus, former Toa of Air. The chain wrapped around the two easily, forming a deadly bond. It was over in seconds.
Xantha tried to move in, but chains reached from the walls, bounding her tight. “Curse you, Nyxos!” She cried before a chain wrapped around her neck, and began to choke her.
In fifteen seconds, three formerly powerful beings lay dead at Nyxos’s feet.
“Oh? Scared already? I was hoping my servants would put up more of a challenge…”
Kage smirked, hiding his hatred of his opponent. “You want a challenge, moron?”
A circle formed under Nyxos’s feet. “Then you’ll have a blast with this one…”
The blast of darkness under Nyxos’s feet was tremendous. It caused Kage’s allies to stagger backwards from the ferocious shockwave that slammed them all like a herd of stampeding kikanalo. The ceiling was rendered non-existent, needless to say. However, when the smoke cleared, Nyxos was standing there, casually, and really unimpressed.
“Idiot! Shadow has no effect on him!” Yelled Cern.
Kage let out a curse. However, before he could think of something else, a blast of fire slammed him in the shoulder, blasting him backwards a good 100 yards before slamming onto the ground.
Kage lay unmoving, yet his heartlight still shown.
The others were beside themselves. Before anyone could act, another blade cut through the air, this one made of wind, slashed into the side of Cern’s head, ending his life.
This enraged Zenos, who considered Cern to be his best friend. His spear, which had been repaired by Kage, flew at lightning speed towards Nyxos’s miserable head. However, even with this speed, Nyxos’s head tilted slightly, and the spear slammed into the ground.
Then, Zenos was being assaulted by hundreds of blasts of light, coming from all directions. Zenos, although extremely agile, was having a hard time with these blasts, and one eventually clipped his jetpack’s wing, sending him spiraling to the earth. The crash proved to not be fatal, however, and he was back on his feet soon.
Nyxos began to laugh uncontrollably. He would’ve started speaking, but his thoughts were put to a halt when a scarily precise shot from Ghost made it through his defenses and struck the being in the side. It wasn’t fatal, but it hurt. He turned on Ghost, slashing his blades. However, Ghost had altogether vanished before Nyxos could do anything.
Nyxos could read the positions of all the others, but Ghost and Xanna were particularly difficult to read…
‘Speaking of which…Where is Xanna’ He thought to himself. A knife to the back answered that question. His blade slashed at his opponent, who tried to dodge, but suddenly, The Harvester was there, his acidic scythe hooking onto the blade and deflecting it off its course, sending it harmlessly into a column.
The Harvester continued his assault, sending blast after blast of acid at the opponent. For some reason, the acid had the power to melt through solid shadow. “How on earth…?” Nyxos muttered.
“How is it melting through shadow?” Finished the Harvester. “Call it…a gift from Lord Shadus.”
Nyxos cursed. That imbecile Shadus probably gave this one some ichor to fuse into his body. Somehow, it wasn’t eating away at his skin, which was even more impressive.
Xanna’s dagger was suddenly pulled from Nyxos’s back, which hurt and drew ichor.
Dark Ichor.
Nyxos smiled. “Foolish move, imbecile…”
The Ichor that gushed out suddenly formed into tentacles, which reached to grab Xanna in an attempt to melt her. She tried to nimbly dodge, but she accidentally stumbled on a fallen rock from Kage’s attack and fell. The tentacles reached to her neck.
The Harvester tried to reach her, but a sudden blast of shadow from behind him rendered him onto his knees.
Xantha, suddenly, broke free of her chains. She had been forced to watch her brothers fall to this maniac not once, but twice. Her heart ached from this, and she had one person to blame. One who, never before, held such a spot of hatred in her heart. One whom she, not only wanted to, but felt like she NEEDED to kill to live with herself. She would not allow him to take a single more life.
“NYXOS!!!” She bellowed, slashing her hands open with blades made of shadow, drawing Dark Ichor. “I swear…You monster…I swear I will end your life…right here…right now…” The Ichor became greatswords, and she lunged forward, more Ichor swirling around her rage-filled eyes.
Nyxos laughed. “Finally! I’ve been waiting for this!” He formed swords of Darkspace, practically flying at her.
The blast created by the two’s swords clashing caused a clash that shook the entirety of Spherus Magna.
*Watches wide-eyed, eating popcorn and rocking back and forth while Megalovania plays*