Intoxia Warriors - Mizuka Blood (Book One)

by De'Karhi Philpot

  Shiver had insisted on taking the advice from Ivy as she continued onward down the hallway with nothing but confidence. The eliquoence of her character had begun to grow as she spared some of her energy and ran the rest of the way.

  But out of desperation, the head-administrator made blitz halt, and gawked back and realized that the Poison warrior wouldn't be able to last that long against unique enemies that are on the elite level.

  Should I really go back and help her. She told me to leave her behind but at the same time that'll only damage by reputation as one of the leaders that can encourage people to thrive for something that they really want, Shiver debated heavily and kept puzzling herself.

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  A tremendous gap of wind had split away the Intoxia Warriors and the Bloodlust Revelation warriors. Looking onward at the inferno image of a woman whose body is seduced by the boiling rage of the Mizuka Phoenix, Lola's body had willingly betrayed her every command.

  I must ask one thing that I normally don't ask because of how rhetorical is sounds, buried deep inside the minds of the flames, communicating with the average-sized Phoenix, Lola, not wearing any clothes with her face covered, asked.

  Why you were the next hostess of my powers? The Phoenix figured out what the Core General was on the verge of asking. Her accent is British with a deep chestnut-brown voice that seemed deep and intimidating. It's because of the events that never should've occured. One of the things that you need to know is that your grandfather, Charlie Mizuka, was the first member of your bloodline to ever obtain my powers because of the decisions he embraced since he was a kid. That's something that you'll have to bind yourself to in order to understand. But as of right now, your qualities of leadership are pretty low and you're willingly giving up way too easily before trying. That's why I, Lorashisasha, stepped in and started corrupting your body.

  Barely having an understanding of the scenario, Lola never knew the warm philosophy that Lorashisasha had to shove into the General's throat.

  Even around the time when your son was abducted by Cyrius, it was your determination to save him is what triggered me in the first place and what gave you the incredible advantage to defeat them. But now you're trying to use my powers for the negativity and your mother, Anema Mizuka, would be horribly disappointed in you.

  From what I've heard, Lola stated, with her face blacked out and advancing toward the flaming bird. The Mizuka Phoenix was also another Avarian Beast that was allies with the Aruba Avarian Beast. Is that true? Is that one of the reasons why Crystal and I had such an amazing bond that inspired so many others to encourage their loved ones?

  That part isn't as true as you claimed it to be, Lorashisasha then gave a concluded, yet logical answer. Myself and my sister, Kuronina, never got along. However, for reasons that I don't understand, child, you and her had created a relationship that I wished Kuronina and I had.

  So we were never destined to be close? Lola's head lowered down.

  Don't feel that way, Mizuka. It was your choice to build a bond with that young lady. And Diamond did want you to keep that promise that you'd sacrifice everything for your love for that girl. As far as the others go, it went to show that you have no shame in having a human side. Even in your Core General status, you still managed to maintain something that not a lot of people can do.

  Lorashisasha hoisted her flaming wing against Lola's chin and lifted her head up. I would like to continue to this touching conversation but my sister has yet to be born. So, I'm going to be sure that you'll gain the chance to fight Crystal before she's revived for Black to use. I will guide you just this once since it's a critical situation.

  Busting out in the outfit of a razzle dazzle rose kimono with a rose ebony strap around the attire. Wearing red-orange hair with flames of mist oozing out from within the strap of her hair. Opening her eyes from within the darkness of her sight, she soon realized her vision saw nothing but everything being rifle green.

  Black had looked on once the Core General had been removed from a huge cacoon of flames that embraced her body. He felt his excitement developing greater since the night of the rape.

  His theories were as true as he could portray about Lola's current character: One of the members of the group had helped him plotted the assault against the woman to see if she's willing to maintain Lorashisasha's powers and why Lola was the perfect choice for the ritual.

  It all worked out for the best, Black quoted in his mind, walking away from the scene and leaving his group behind to take care of the members. Lola's been on the verge to avoid her darkest past to the extent. Perhaps I should've used Hitachi as a pawn to try and get him to turn his back on his mom. But that would've been too boring for me to deal.

  "You fools be more accurate and aware of any reinforcements, I'm going to go and check on Crystal to see how she's doing," Black didn't bother to turn around and gawk over back at the battlefield.

  All five members of the group had jumped down to the platform of where Lola and the others stood before them.

  But before they could all go in to a gigantic battles, Black had given Lola a past between the Bloodlust Revelation and her comrades.

  "Lola," Black stated with both bony arms crossed in front of his black cloak.

  Lola's look had shown nothing but despair, yet ambitions. She didn't say anything. From the looks of everyone else, Lola avoided being cocky. The Core General suddenly been exposed through a variety of all the warriors all crammed in one location.

  "I wish to challenge you in a vicious death battle," came another voice that stood from behind him.

  Black had then turned himself around and noticed the demonic changes on his newest apprentice. Unable to tell what he's feeling, a satisfied expression had emerged from behind him.

  Marscilla and Emerald had turned the bodies around and saw the dark entity of black feathers flopping around her body. Hiba, Sonya, Alex and Hitachi's emotional masks told a more disturbed story of what they're witnessing: A child they've grown up with for the last twelve years stood at the highest level with her eyes widened in an ominous purple eyes.

  "Cry-- Crystal?" Sonya was crushed at what she's witnessing. Her heart had begun to detonate with sadness. "General, what's happened to her? Why does she look so eerie?"

  "Isn't it obvious, Sonya?" Crystal asked, unsheathing her blade from behind her back. The sound of the released weapon had sounded with a haunting wind surging. "I'm going to show you all what happens when you've pushed the most kind-hearted people to the brink of turmoil. Don't expect any courtesy from me once I make the first move."

  "Easy there, young tigress," Lisa came at the young Aruba. "Remember what we said, baby. I think that Lola should be the perfect one to fight ya. Don't worry--"

  "Lisa. I want to show these three so-called friends of mine what happens when they made me cry on my seventh birthday. All their actions were based upon envy and hatred towards me."

  "Crystal, please listen to us," Hitachi then stated, stepping forward. "We know that sorry isn't going to do anything, but there's still a chance for you to know how uch we care, deeply about you. We know that you're Diamond's daughter."

  It wasn't a selfish thing for Hitachi to say those things, but he had to say it at some point.

  Tears have conquered the eyes of the dark-haired teenager, body felt drowned by the rising forms of an infamous tsunami. The adrenaline became numb from the moment she witnessed her the people she group up around. Crystal's blade howling hauntingly once she slowly unsheathed it.

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  Chapter 46 - Mistreated

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  Frozen mouths were solid after hearing what Crystal had just called her childhood friends (or former, according to her visions), it made Lola comprehend the ramification of her actions. She was still, only folding and unfolding her hands. Her view was a bit blurry, but came to an instant halt and was back to normal. The Mizuka General was optionless. In addition, she peered over at her fellow fighters and allowed them to speak
their pieces before the battle commenced.

  "Crystal," Sonya was stunned, trying her best to push away the guilt, but knew that it wouldn't have been good for her. She knew what she and the other two have done to anger the youngest & newest recruit. "Crystal, please listen to us. We know what we did was unfair, uncall for and it was an aura of jealous rage. If there's anything we can do to make it up to you, we'll do it. Even if we have to show you how much we care."

  Crystal grasped her sword even tighter on the other end of her black sword. She panted heavily, but shifted back into relaxing. The pattern of her breathing was switching constantly and persistantly to let all her feelings out in front of everyone.

  It was an out-of-character aspect of being a Bloodlust Revelation warrior, but Crystal was an exception for Black. He continously viewed the negative scene from the Intoxia Warriors.

  "The words you speak towards me, Sonya are . You were never fair and honest with me. All I got in response was nothing but envy. What the hell have I ever done to deserve it, Sonya?" Crystal bellowed as she raised her voice to the point where it sort of frightened Sonya. "I demand that you answer to me and I refuse to repeat myself."

  Lisa's eyes widened. Reliving some of the times when she was a member of the Intoxian Army. She thought instantly, She reminds me a lot of myself. Fiesty, diabolical, so hateful towards a lot of things. I guess we're finally connecting.

  I highly doubt that's possible, Lisa, Marscilla's mind then came into play. Crystal was never like you when you were younger. You were just a party animal that loved to take things as a joke.

  Oh for crying out loud, Lisa became too immature to take the situation more personal.

  Crystal's eyes were wetter as she felt saliva spilling out of her mouth, "You never-- Never cared much about my skills. You never thougth about the kindness that I had in my heart. You've all exploited my character to the extent and you expect me to forgive you?"

  Lola had no choice but to stand up for Sonya and the others. She unsheathed the blade from behind her back and pressured herself into engaging the young Aruba with full force.

  "Crystal," Lola was disappointed about the behavior that Crystal's adopted from the mercinary group. "I don't know what Black and the others have done or forced you to believe from the start, but I'm going to engage them, even if it's risky as hell."

  Mom, Hitachi zensed a different aura. One that wasn't even similar to the others in the Leserado lobby. "Mom, what are you doing?"

  The Core General had made an ominous statement that no one, not even the Bloodlust Revelation had suspected, "Hitachi. Sonya. Alex. If you three hadn't angered Crystal this much to the point where she had to choose the Black Sword to prove her loyalty to Black, I wouldn't have been put in a very complex situation to where it's all grey. The last fifteen years I thought I have had with this girl was nothing but a gigantic waste of time," Lola claimed.

  "What are you trying to say?" Hitachi uttered, but had the chance to realize what she was trying to say but sugar-coated. "You're going to kill her, aren't you?"

  "No, General, don't got that far!" Sonya bellowed in disbelief. Her eyes had grown with the shadiness of her colored eyes. "There's no way that Lola Mizuka is going to kill one of her own comrades."

  Black was impressed by Sonya's pleading. He sensed a dark stream of blue energy trailing in from behind him, but it was absorbed by the Black Sword Crystal had embedded with her grasp.

  It's time, Black thought to himself.

  "You damn right it's time, you old fool," Tornado, ironically speaking as a soon to be veteran, stormed in from behind and attacked Black with his right paw trying to pierce thoroughly into the Reaper's chest.

  Their minds thunderbolted when they saw the Southern General striking the Grim Reaper from behind. It gave him a slight advantage to give the others the opportunity to make the first move. All four entities on Lola's side of the field had stormed in at full force. But a few moments later, Hiba activated the Legendary Hinura Stareye abilities (ascending to stage three - Tushurago.) In Hiba's case the stage three enhances a spanning technique that allows all attacks and defenses to span wildly throughout any premises that Hiba's on the floor with. She can easily use it to her advantage to try and be assured that the battle stayed in her favors.

  Hiba pulled her sword out and swung one time with a series of Burning Stars splashing everywhere, but surging through her comrades and heading directly at her opponents.

  Lola and Crystal. Two individuals now on opposing sides. The Bloodlust disciple gawked horrendously at her mother-figure. It wasn't going to pain Black that he would be the one responsible for Crystal's predicament with the Core General.

  "Crystal, I'm sorry for not doing what I should've done a long time ago," Lola applied with her fiery sword growing hotter, due to her anger and kind of difference it will make throughout this massive fight.

  "You darn right. You should've just left me alone like you had all those years of you working instead of noticing your family. There isn't a shadow of a that you know so much about emotions, and yet you tend to block it off to maintain your strength as a General, not so humanly of you," Crystal proclaimed as she slowly walked toward her enemy.

  The red-haired leader was beyond conflicted at the stunt she'd pull once she attacked. It was good while it lasted for her own selfish goals to surive, she left with no other choice but to take the life of a girl that she's loved and raised since the day she was born.

  Diamond, I'm stuck with trying to figure out what to do. If you were still alive, You'd know in the instant what to do against the Bloodlust Revelation. I'm scared of losing your little girl because of this. Please help me find an answer to saving her without trying to annihilate her, Lola disintegrated her thoughts and phenomenally with her throat nearly closing from the inside. I'm scared. I can't go through this fight.

  Lola was kicked out of her thoughts when her stomach became ache from a solid kick from the bottom of Crystal's foot. She fell back to the ground too fast. Looking over at the other areas, Sonya and Hiba engaged Lisa and Marscilla, but barely felt as if they were going to have no choice but to fight even harder and smarter.

  Lisa blocked and elbow from Sonya and used a huge force of her power to knock the Amili gal back several feet away until she landed squarely on her face. Hiba didn't think to turn around to call out Sonya's name to be sure if she wasn't wounded badly. She landed a punching blow toward the succubus' right jaw. Lisa flew away, but stormed in at Hiba as their fists clashed with a small breeze blew out across the field.

  Lisa demeterialized behind Hiba and tried to hit her, but failed miserably; Hiba leaned her skull against the monstrous Amili's face as she performed a combo attack to take advatange of the fight. A flash of punches stormed at the Succubus, but the last one was blocked by Marscilla's right fist.

  However, Hiba ducked instantly ducked in time to have the two Bloodlust go into a small mishap of paying attention, but only after Lisa flew more than twenty feet away but came to a halt. She saw Marscilla and Hiba exchanging blows. Hiba ducked in time after Marscilla twirled her body around to kick her in the mouth. Dodging with ease, Hiba smashed her skull against the chin of the Erisa enemy's chin.

  Flipping vertically backwards, Marscilla stopped dead in her tracks and saw how much Hiba progressed since the last time they fought (taken back two years ago.)

  "You certainly have been training your ass off for as long as I could remember. If this isn't worth the time to kill, then I don't know what is," Marscilla had always complimented her adversaries if they're willing to give her a good fight, but Hiba's prowess and skills were more than an exception for Marscilla.

  "I do thank you for the compliment, but that doesn't mean that I have respect for you," Hiba stated arrogantly. It ran through her veins to speak that way because of the opponent she's fighting.

  "As I suspected from a typical Hinura. Hiba, you certainly are Lola's best fighter, huh?" Marscilla's smirk then disappeared and she used her B
litz ability. Her Blitz technique mainly revolved around her speed. She'd be able to move ten times faster than she's been able to before she took the fight to the next level. "I've been wanting to use this for the longest time."

  Hiba felt the tension of the fighting accelerate immensely. She felt her heart-beat accelerating, but she then used Lola's courage as a template to not lose focus. Hiba released the next stage of the Hinura Stareyes (Stage Four - Kurunisa = Speed and Stamina Development) All members of the Hinura Bloodline, including Hiba and Black can obtain fifteen stage. The Hinura heroine and the Erisa viilain didn't stop for anything.

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  Tornado and Black continued their duel of the physical wits. Tornado moved himself to the side by duplicating his body to confuse the Reaper. Being highly experienced, Black was no fool. He released a huge gap of ghouls blasting directly at the canine with trails of black flames spilling across the top platform.

  Peering over at the upper level, Hitachi and Alex got distracted for a split second, in resort to getting attacked by Emerald and Charlie. Charlie wind himself at Hitachi and glanced carefully at what type of movements his Great-grandson will make before performing any techniques.

  Hitachi had moved in a different direction to avoid the silver claws from Charlie as he used his energy to harden his skin. He then had a series of Flaming Spheres storming at his great-grandfather. But the strange thing about it was Lola's the granddaughter of the merciless member of Black's group.

  Charlie drifted his body through Hitachi after cloaking hisself with the flames and dropped both his jaws to shoot out a series of infamous flames at the young warrior. Hitachi's eyes widened in horror for a moment. In the blink of an eye, Alex came in to repel the blow. The heat had spanned in several, altering from alizarin crimson red to smoky black.

  Rouge then stormed into the scene and had stopped Alex from engaging the battle even further.

  "Aunt Rouge," Hitachi uttered in excitement. Rouge, taking advantage of the black flames, used her energy to manipulate the black flames that trashed nearly the Leserado Lobby and formed it into a powerful, serpentine black-smoked beast with a gritty hissing effect slithering in from behind her.