"Don't worry about it, Rouge," Shiver patted the Apex Magician's left shoulder. "She's completely misunderstood by the lies Black had given. Even though it's true that Diamond is, in reality, her biological mother, it's only accurate the Black must have made a few twists in the truth to make the situation of Crystal's loyalty go in his favor."
"I'm never confused, I have been depressed these last seven years, from the time of my birthday disaster to this point and you were all looking down on me like I'm a scumbag. Why am I even wasting my breath on trying to do what needs to be done when I just kill you right here and now!" Crystal's voice thundered and echoed throughout the Corridor Prison.
Rouge stood helplessly with Shiver and had no idea what else to anticipate. She saw the dim gray ceiling switch colors into dark-golden with her flames running wildly. She feared that she was the only one of the Mizuka family that could prevent Crystal from achieving the one thing that could disintegrate her mentality entirely. In terms of losing all of her happiness for sheer willpower was one of the casualties that Black had stapled into this child's mind. Gawking up at the roof, it was nothing but another energy stream bursting in throughout the course of the Corridor Prison.
"I've been waiting too long to sit back and not do anything to stop Black from hurting my family. Any one that's important to Diamond is important to us and you have made the mistake of ruining the innocence of a child that has done nothing desiring to help you achieve something," the next voice came a creamy, yet cherry red voice bloomed in from behind. It sounded vulnerable, but at the same time it tried to grow strong once again.
Blazing with her soul and sparkling presence grappling the attention of the viewers that was in front of her. The Core General, Lola Mizuka, had her wound healed immediately.
"I spent fifteen years of my life protecting this girl from the truth. That's one of the moralities that I refused to strike down because of assholes like you," Lola uttered, breathing heavily with sweat escaping from her forehead and body. The more her anger grew, the greater Lorashiasasha's force became. It became a triggering, yet disturbing symbol that Lola's true ambitions comes desperately from the Mizuka Phoenix.
Forming her body into a fighting stance: Placing her hands on the ground with a massive heat swirling literally within her body as it's shown by everyone else; the immense power of the famous and marvelous Kilasu Blitz will be triggered within a few moments to change to gravity of this gigantic rescue mission.
Backlash Begins... But how far must Lola Roberta Mizuka go in order to save the girl she's raised and protected for so long that she'll even take on challenges greater than herself?
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Chapter 49 - The Symbols Are Released
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(Almost thirty minutes ago)
Upon entering the Bay of Leserado; Daniela, as well as her comrades, were all mortally wounded, but not to the extent. The held their own long enough for General Brook to try and catch up to them after her battle with Marscilla.
Daniela stood on both her knees with both palms of the hand pressed down on her knees. She felt somewhat depressed and stressed out about the situation and felt like giving up without even trying.
That is until she felt Brook's right palm suddenly appear; enforcing the Aruba woman to hoist her head up with her eyes nearly widened through horror. All the pure pressure had taken it's toll upon her.
"General Brook," Daniella felt relieved for a moment, but swiftly glanced at the small pool of her blood on the ground. "Why? Can you explain why this?"
Brook to the quality time to give out a concede answer and thrust it one last time into Daniela's throat, "Well, despite all the time you've been so focusing on trying to survive with strength, it takes intelligents to outwit the opponent. That's why Hiba's always defeated you and Isabella in combat all the time."
The left side of Daniela's ribs started to hurt very rapidly. For a while it was at the point to where she wanted to vomit and collapse, but she had managed to get the medical support she could.
"You can't always make an assumption as to why I'm always--"
"It's not an assumption, Daniela. It's the reality. Hell, you can learn a lot from this mission. This is a life or death situation and you're sort of joking around so much," Brook bellowed, turning her back at the woman, trailing in the opposing direction. "You can sit there and rot on your knees and feel sorry for the fact you're not winning or you can get your ass up and hit them harder than they've hit you."
Daniela's expression sparked her mind. She glared at her General without any contempt. She knew that in order to win a hard fight, Daniela had no options but to engulf as much pain as her feminist body could afford.
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Staring heavily into the eyes of the mythical beast, Black Hinura couldn't help but have the courage to bow down in respect and give the Aruba Beast the rights to control of the situation at hand. During the amount of time that he's devoted by reviving Kuronina was something that the blue-bird Avarian normally wouldn't tolerate. But at the same time, it's been pushed to the limits of Kuronina's patients that she's going to give the Grim Reaper a pass.
"Why have you wasted so much time in awakening me, Black? I have already told you and that animal Diamond that I do not wish to be used for something that can give any of you humans the slimmest advantages," Kuronina bellowed without moving her beak.
"Because you are the prime formula Crystal Aruba needs in order to release the Diary Symbols," Black hurriedly answered Kuronina's questioning.. "Hence that there are a certain amount adaptions that we need to adjust in order for this operation to work."
"What makes you think that I'll be serving a fifteen year-old child just because she's the daughter of the former hostess that only used my powers for her own selfish reasons?" Kuronina had always suspected something discouraging about the Aruba bloodline, but at the same time, it pushed her to a level where she rarely goes; especially that she's nicknamed as "The Forgiving Bird."
"Most of humanity are confusing themselves with some theories that may be accurate or inaccurate. It's precisely strange to even ask you this question in particular but," Black had been waiting fifteen years for this question to be answered by the Great Beast. "You must explain why you were, a creature of encouragement, gave up on Diamond when she was your hostess?"
Kuronina's beak collapsed to her feathery chin, "Now that is a question that I will not allow myself to answer."
Black chuckled, rosing up to his feet with cold sightless-eyes glaring at the creature that towered him by over five hundred stories. He said with horror growing in his voice, "I'm afraid you don't have that much of a choice in the matter. Sooner or later, my apprentice will devour your body deep within her body and you are going to show her all that has happened. It's been so long that I took the time off to avoid bothering you until the decade and a half was up. Now, are you going to come clean and answer."
Kuronina, still weakened from the fight from years ago, had her back turned and couldn't react in time for Black to descend right behind her. It's was foreshadowed as to why Black had refused himself to be intimidated by the massive force of the Aruba Avarian Beast.
"Or do we have to reinact with a deadly game of Q&A?"
Scared out of her heart and soul, Kuronina didn't feel the need to talk down on the Grim Reaper for his lack of sympathy towards anything, including his own enemies. She tried to fight off everything she said, but was conflicted about the decision-making.
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Engaged in the form of Fiery Kilasu Mode; this specific technique Lola had learned on the third year of Core General of the Intoxian Army. It's explained through her actions that allows her to have flames surging through her body with various kicks as she twirls towards her adversary. The flames are to upgrade with the amount of damage she inflicts to her opponent per blow.
Crystal felt as if her heart was pulverize by the illusion of her own demise. She then had to swallow her intimidation and re-built the courage to confr
ont her mother-figure. The stress and immense force within her body had explode phenomenally. She was on the verge of experience the traumatizing aura.
The fifteen year-old Aruba had managed to calm herself down, unsheathing the blade from behind her back. Gawking endlessly at the red beauty of this individual who would do what she must.
Lola's heart was pounding; it scared her to the core that there was no boundaries between life or death. However, she then seeked out another way to prevent death from occuring anymore on her side of the team.
"You three," Lola aimed her sights at Mikeru, Rouge and Shiver. Rosing her fist at them, she quickly released her grip of nothing but the air, she enhanced the capability to releasing the doors with Mikeru trying to unseal the code on the prison-gray like door that was stripped of its' hinges and borrowed their way down the Blue-Eyes Fortress. "Go in there and stop Black. If I can't make it in there to fight him, then this will be my last orders to you all."
"That's an order," Lola stretched out the authority at the three and then realized that Sagare was behind her. She felt as if her body was penetrated once again, but a huge block of flames repelling the enemy's attack. The sharp end of the blade had tried to spear its' way straight through. The attack was atrocious to the Mizuka General. She then altered her body in the opposite direction at the man.
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Black was in the middle of talking with Kuronina; wanting to learn more about why Diamond sacrificed everything, including her life. But there's more of the story.
"Diamond's been wanting to give up her own life for reasons that I can tell you. She has been depressed for the longest time. For a while, I quite hated seeing her miserably, but even my wisdom and encouragement for her wasn't enough, so I gave up on her because she gave up on herself," The coldness from Kuronina's tone was immaculate. It set the atmosphere and gave Black a more interesting perspective of what type of spirit the Aruba Avarian Beast had. "Despite me wasting my time with that bitch, she claimed that there wasn't much she could do to save herself or that pathetic army she ran fifteen years earlier."
"That was the only theory that I had, regarding the circumstances of Diamond's weakened state that time. Why else would one of the other members of my organizations eliminated her in cold blood?"
"Because it was for one particular reason that you knew as well," Kuronina added while loweing her head down at the Reaper. "It was vendetta that consumed the member's heart."
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Lola had smacked Sagare back away from her. She then thundered herself at him with a swift kick, striking his vital pressure point that soon interrupted the flow of Ki. The General twirled her body forward with the addition of another Blitz: Burning Barrage Blitz.
The Burning Barrage Blitz is an extended technique that automatically granted Lola the ability to develop the stamina on her body and how it's willing to keep up with heated quick attacks. The durational time for the movements are no longer than ten minutes in combat. Once it's been used up, it can't be performed again for until an hour has passed. The General felt as if it wasn't the best thing for her to do, but then she soon had nothing to worry about.
It's also a specialty that grants the Mizuka General to deliever an endless number of blows towards her opponent. The ability only lasts for only one minute, but it exhausts her for a few moments.
I'll have to use this on him and be aware of Crystal's current actions. But before Lola had her mind cleared up after attacking one of Black's companions; whose somewhat utilizing with his group, she turned around and saw that Crystal was no where to be seen. Shit, I have to hurry up!
Lola then moved in on Sagare to put him down completely; but then witnessed another individual storming into the scene with a pillar of ice block getting in the way by Shiver.
Turning her head, the General saw a fellow General that represents the Aruba Bloodline, Shiver Aruba. Not surprised at what she's witnessing, Brook then realized that the Raging Mizuka Orb was triggered before she decided to engage.
The split between both Mizukas was surely falling with the block of ice crumbling down.
"Mizuka," Shiver strongly began to advise with respect. "I suggest you get in there and help Crystal. Kuronina's already been revived and you won't have the time to stay and fight this man. I'll be alright. What about some of your people?"
"There all on the lower level fighting against some of the other Bloodlust Revelation members," Lola surprisingly answered.
"Go, get out of here," Shiver uttered in a serious tone. "The Avarian Beast isn't waiting any longer before it releases it's fullest potential."
With her eyes zoomed into the enlarged room of Blue-Eyes Fortress, the red-haired leader then hurled herself down the remainder of Corridor Prison and left the Eastern General behind.
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The eyes of dark angel and a blue-bird glued endlessly once Black's apprentice arrived. For the first time ever, the former hostess' daughter and the Avarian Beast meet face to face. The scene was chilling, nearly scattering Black's mind and perspective into peices.
Suddenly, he had figured he's completed his mission entirely of his true purpose for releasing Kuronina after years strategizing.
The first thing he had to do was wait for almost two decades before abducting Crystal. The second plan was the expose her to the truth about her mother's death; next he was going to train her in terms of decision making and how to outwit the opponents by playing the 'fool.' Once he's achived his goal, the last thing he had to do was have Kuronina and Crystal negotiate into granting Crystal the rare opportunity to become the Beast's hostess.
"I take it that this is Diamond's baby girl that's been raised by the Great Lola Mizuka?" Kuronina was speechless for a moment, but then laughed at the disappointment. "I was expecting so much more from that weak bitch General Aruba. I sense that her fighting spirit is a lot more vulnerable than Diamond's herself. The laws that I have set up for her in order for me to stay loyal to her was broken."
"What law was that, may I ask?" Crystal questioned an Avarian Beast without feeling her stomach twisting.
Kuronina growled lowly, but didn't feel discouraged by the fifteen year-old. She gave a concide answer of one of her big laws, "The Power To Abuse Authority With Selfishness."
Recaping some of the thoughts he's had, Black, when he was working for the Intoxian Army during that time, then realized that Diamond's abilities of leadership resonated that law. However, he'd rather not think about it, seeming that it would have annoyed him.
"It makes a lot of sense. You make it seem as if I've been investing my time in trying to figure out who my mother was when I learned the truth from Black. I always thought that Lola was lying to me. So much more morality of a Mizuka."
"Well that's one of the laws that she's been raised by because of Lorashisasha. Have you heard stories about Lorashisasha - The Mizuka Phoenix Queen, correct?"
Black had thought of answering the question for himself, but Kuronina was more interested in hearing Crystal speak her mind. He then stared down at the white haired fighter; waiting for her voice to be heard.
"I've heard very little. I can't be more concerned about learning from it when," she stopped speaking and smiled a bit with her eyes shaded out. "The Mizuka Phoenix is standing directly behind me with loyal servants standing side by side as well."
Heavily breathing with her eyes boiling and glancing up horrifically at the size of the Avarian Beast, Lola's heart had been telling her to attack, but her body wouldn't allow it to because Crystal was in the way. But she tried her best to limit the duties of her General state in terms of having doing the correct thing, even if it was a massive crime: Killing Kuronina and preventing Crystal from becoming the next host.
"Well, well, well, Lola," Crystal had turned her head entirely and saw everyone else gawking straight at her. "I wonder how you were able to survive that attack of mine's."
"I won't go into detail, but let's just say that I had bit help from a little bird that's wide a
wake now. But right now, Crystal, if I have to take you on in order to save you, then so be it. Let it be known that I will not let fifteen years of my life be for nothing to letting Black devour your mindset as Flower of the Intoxian Army. That is the nickname that I gave you on the first month after your mother's demise."
Stunned at what her ears caught, Crystal seemed stuck on what to say. Universally, it wasn't enough to change the fact that Lola lied to her about it all. The room fell into sheer darkness with Crystal, Lola, Hitachi, Sonya, Alex and Hiba all still standing before one another.
The essence of their relationship are in terms of respect, loyalty, love and rare complexity. They both had never understood the full extent of what's been going on with one another. Despite the devastating experiences Crystal's had the past seven years had been unfolded earlier and were spoken against her childhood "friends", as she thought.
"Crystal," Sonya stated as she came in closer next to the General as with the other four members of the Northern Coast. "I've finally learned that you have been through more than what I can even understood while growing up with you. You've done nothing to deserve this. I surely hope that once this is all said and done, you can forgive us."
Alex didn't have much to say. Except he unsheathed the enlarged broad sword from behind his back. The majority of his perspective, slightly changed and only thought about what Lola had mentioned to him a while they were training at the Western Facility weeks ago.
Crystal isn't the only one that the Bloodlust Revelation are trying to destroy from the inside, Alex had his eyes sealed for a split second, but then enforced his eyes shifted from darkslate blue through ominous panther-yellow. Hallowing ghosts had escaped from his sword and spread around the blade. "I don't like this idealism of trying to hurt your friends are, Crystal, but there's a slithering chance that I could feel a bit sorry for you."
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Chapter 50 – Black’s Promise To Diamond
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Sick to her stomach as to why they're all desperate to win her back, Crystal's mind was shoved into the perspective of how the real world truly is. She stared endlessly, unsheathing the blade from behind her.
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