Intoxia Warriors - Mizuka Blood (Book One)

by De'Karhi Philpot

  “I’ll be more considerate about the movements you damn demons obtain in order to survive this time. I wasn’t so lucky last time, but I can assure you, Mikeru, this will be the last time you ever go into combat in your demon form—“

  “Shut up, already,” Mikeru was rather more interested in beating his opponents to a bloody pulp. “I don’t care what my cousin did to you. It pretty much serves you right for trying to eliminate the Intoxian Army from all four coasts and ignoring Black’s rules. I may hate that son of a bitch, but at least on a subconscious level, that it wasn’t so wise to betray him like that. Just like you did with the Globe Government because you had a problem with controlling yourself when it came to authorities. All Shiver asked for you was to protect a kid from the Black Widows organization and you just sold her soul straight to those demons in cold-blood. I never understood the logic behind it. So that’s why I’m going to kick your ass right here and now.”

  Sagare's felt no mourning on his face. He was so devious about the way he behaved, but at the same time, he learned very quickly that’s what the Globe Government was all about.

  “Well, then, Mikeru Amili. If this makes you feel too uncomfortable seeing me like this, then I suggest you stop complaining and do something about it,” Sagare retorted sadistically with his brown eyes glued to the Amili Demon. “I loathe the damn facility that has higher power over the lives of everyone else. That’s how I normally see things, it’s easier to mentally derail the minds of others while keeping your very own stabled.”

  “What the hell did you accomplish by betraying people?” Mikeru’s eyes grew angrier. He could tell that Sagare was never as supportive of the Intoxian Army as he claimed to be. “The IAF had always been the ones putting the blood of the innocents in their hands.”

  “You’re wrong about that, Sagare. The demographic of the Intoxian Army’s standards is high and with good quality. Lola Mizuka’s always been the glue that held everyone together whenever they felt like giving up. Whenever that happened to them, she’d always give us a kick in the ass to make sure we don’t back down from any challenge,” Mikeru’s been on the verge of defending the Mizuka General’s morals and honor for the longest time since he left the Globe Government for a year to be under the red-haired leader’s wing.

  “How touching,” Sagare. “However, it’s pathetic how you’re on the verge of trying to defend the fact that my daughter has encouraged you fools to look alive and well, huh?”

  Mikeru’s voice ran into a frozen wilderness. He became stunned at what Sagare mentioned. He wrestled with a mixture of words coming in at the same time, trying to be the first term to escape his mouth. However, he felt his heart aching, but had to calm down for a split second.

  “This… This makes no sense,” Mikeru replied with an eyes of disbelief. “Lola told me that she didn’t have any parents growing up. Are you telling me that she lied? Lola Mizuka, the woman who’s always stayed true about everything.”

  “I couldn’t have said it so myself, young man. After all, this is what lies beyond the Intoxian Army, you would have expected for Lola to give Crystal all that information about Diamond being her biological mother, you’d soon understand that Lola’s "morals" don't go well with her personality.”

  Lost with words, Mikeru didn’t have anything else to say. He was on the verge of reversing the effect of his transformation, but then Shiver stopped him from doing so.

  “Now, you wait just a minute, Sagare,” Shiver stood as best as she could with the help from Rouge and his warriors. “Mikeru, don’t you dare think that Lola’s the type of woman to have such low moralities. She’s different from the Bloodlust Revelations. Their job was to have Lola speak the truth about Diamond to Crystal at a very tender age, but it would have caused her the mentality of a child and go after them as an inexperienced combatant.”

  Mikeru began to think about it. Even though it’s unimaginable for him to understand, he can tell that explaining a graphic, dark past to a child is the lowest thing a ‘human’ could ever do.

  ***

  Stopping at nothing to pursuit her opponents, Crystal’s body had begun to act on their own. The sudden cycle of her movements changed once Lola rejoined the fight. The Aruba Disciple tried and hammer her sword against the left side of the General’s skull. Quickly counter-attacking, Lola first reeled herself downward before pummeling the apprentice’s chin, rocketing her body in the direction to where Kuronina was located.

  Contemplating, Aruba Beast didn’t think that observing the fanatical battle was marvelous because of Black’s disgusting plot. She thought about taking matters into her own hands and re-developed her opinion about Diamond and how much of a failure she was before exchanging the Symbols over to her only daughter.

  She saw the purple-haired Aruba land spine-first against one of the huge blocks that collided from the enlarged ice-block. Lola didn’t stop from there, she was moving in at a quick and used the Mizuka Spear once again, but only this time, the attempt to do so wasn’t how the Mizuka General had planned or expected.

  In the eyes of Crystal Aruba, the teenager saw the General coming in, but noticed another individual storming in at radical speed with. She didn’t have enough time to for. Fifteen years of her life raised by the Core General…

  …Marscilla had impaled her sword deep into the abdomen of Diamond Aruba’s daughter without the sense of remorse. The blood had spilled in from behind her. Glaring horrifically, Lola and the others felt frozen chills crawling through every fiber in their body.

  No one had moved a muscle; Kuronina, for an Avarian Beast with little emotion, exposing an absolute gaze of shock.

  ***

  Chapter 51 – Unraveled

  ***

  The scene was zoomed tremendously with several still frames of warriors clashing with huge gaps of elements spilling all over. Only moments later, it soon stormed in the Blue-Eyes Fortress where a battle between a Grim Disciple and the Mizuka Phoenix coming to an abrupt end.

  More than five images watched as their minds were placed in a dark cloud of lightning storms. Neither of them could utter a singular word with their blood frozen. Each fiber in their body had forbidden them from engaging instantaneously.

  Peering down at the helplessly Crystal, Marscilla had plunged a sword deep into her target’s abdomen. The attack was fierce enough to the point where her mind shattered undeniably. She couldn’t breathe, her heart was giving out and her blood was leaving the wound a lot quicker than a bullet’s speed.

  “Sorry, Crystal, it was for your mother’s own good,” Marscilla uttered, but sensed Lola’s presence blazing in with a sudden change of color in her eyes.

  "That was one mistake that I will not let you live to regret, Lola bellowed loud enough for everyone to hear her. She screamed endlessly with her facial appearance developing into grim a gritty and monstrous visage. It wasn’t too long ago Lorashisasha had allowed the Mizuka General to release her inner demons in the course of two hours and five minutes of this massive battle. The mythical flaming bird’s advice clearly wasn’t enough to keep Lola’s mentality stabled once the form was released.

  Marscilla had moved out of harm’s way. To her surprised, she saw five more figures charging at her with weapons and despaired, boiling masks on their faces. Alex didn’t waste any of his time brushing past the others, flaking his sword wildly. Dodging his hits, Marscilla motioned her foot backwards, kicking the sword out of his grasp. She had vastly studied all their movements during the battle on the Leserado Lobby.

  She was quick on her feet, ramming her elbow into Alex’s throat, temporaly stripping him of his voice box. He went down too quick on his knees, but had his skull pinned down to the hard, concrete. Lola, who then stopped herself from using too much of her energy, was then stopped by Lora’s influence. The Phoenix had, for reasons that are very unclear to the General, calmed her host down in a way that no hostess should’ve been able to do.

  Lola, you’re letting your anger get in the
way. This is the perfect chance for you to talk to Crystal now. You think that’s she’s still going to give you the opportunity to try and let go of her anger for you? Lorashisasha said within the heated cocoon. She could hear the woman breathing angrily with her eyes glowing even a darker purple. Lola was suddenly battling through psychological mindsets. It was placed into different segments, but she had no reason not to go through with it. One of the rarest things that Lola’s ever done to the fifteen-year-old was apologizing in convincing fashion.

  ***

  Standing tall, but battle damaged at the Tomb of Leserado gateway, Sophia B Mizuka, the middle sibling of Lola Mizuka and the second child of Sagare and Anema, was barely conscious. She could hardly feel her body moving in a pace that she could be satisfied with in order to aid them.

  Why is she mortally wounded? Thanks to the fierce and deadly attempts to annihilate her were because of Lisa and Marscilla’s doing during her previous mission at Mayhem Coliseum to put an end to a massive a month and a half earlier, bloodshed of a tournament hosted by former member of Globe Government: August Hinura, whose now recently had a role in the Cyrius organization to host the tournament for many different theories that people from the Globe Government only knew but never opened their mouths.

  Sophia was more than prepared for a rematch in her current condition. Hence that the incredible amount of stress she was going through against Lisa and Marscilla, she swallowed her pride and realized that she had one last chance to prove herself to Lola that she’s more than worthy enough of being comrade in the Northern Coast.

  Entering the battlefield, Sophia wasn’t the only one going in to help save Crystal from the Bloodlust Revelation.

  “You sure as hell have a knack for getting back on your feet, Mizuka,” Came another voice, a feminist, almond-flavored voice with a katana blade behind her back. She had a grin erupting crazily on her face as she stood next to Sophia.

  “You bitch and you sure as hell have a way of popping out of nowhere at the very last second,” Sophia replied in a silly tone, but still felt the aching in her right arm from almost two days earlier. “I think we should save all the talk and stuff like that for once this is all over. Wouldn’t you agree with me?”

  Layla Hinura, five-year warrior of Eastern Coast, had placed her right hand on Sophia’s shoulder. She nearly laughed for a few moments, but selectively taken the situation to new heights.

  “I hope you have a well-developed strategy that can get us inside," Layla replied with her eyes glued at the red-haired fighter.

  “I don’t think that you’re going any further than you already are, Mizuka and Hinura,” The Bloodlust Succubus stated from behind them with her scythe in hand. She laughed callously, two eyes steaming as usual. “Sophia, when’s there ever a time for you to just give up? You’re weak and simple-minded to even consider yourself a Mizuka. I'm startled by the results of your physical conditions. You shouldn't even be alive after the events at Coliseum Mayhem.”

  The ignorance from Lisa sparked Sophia to where she became antagonized by her enemies. However, due to recent training she’s had with Layla Poison, she was aided to control her emotions and block it all off for until the fighting was concluded.

  “You think that you’re so tough, huh, Lisa? Last I checked, I barely kicked your ass until Black came in and saved you. Hence that if it weren’t for him, you’d be dead already. I do have to say that what you and August tried to pull last month, it became very vital and clear that you weren’t even going to let any of those slaves who entered the Mayhem Coliseum go in one piece.”

  Lisa applauded the intellectual Hinura for her answer and what she was willing to do afterwards, “You clearly are on spot with what I do with myself, don’t you, Layla? Perpaps, I shouldn’t have gotten rid of your mother that sooner than expected. But we’ll talk about that once you’re on the verge of dying, OK?”

  Layla’s mother was killed by the notorious organization six years prior to her becoming a member of the Intoxian Army. Lisa was heavily concerned about how well of a subordinate her mom was and how Black had enforced the woman to give him the information in fear about a scientific research she was working on with Ross Tishiragi.

  “Despite that my Mom being killed by a witch like you, it amazes me how I was trained well to think about what she’d want me to do: You knew she was a sweet and innocent person that wanted to help so many others with their lives with science and you took that opportunity away from her, you sickening bitch.”

  “Oh,” Lisa mocked the agony of the woman’s frustrations. “I think I’ve tied your panties in a knot. All I did was seduce her for a split second. I then decided to mount her, like the whore that she was. She didn’t tell you?”

  “Tell me what?” Layla seemed puzzled at what the succubus was roaring about.

  “What, she didn’t tell you. That’s one of the things that you soldiers be keeping from each other. I had always suspected that you were the type to give yourself the chance to ask your mother about her prostitution days.”

  Sophia gawked over at her comrade whose face was blanked out. She didn’t realize if Layla was relying on rather or not to hear about it or if she was mighty interested in what the monstrous vixen had to say.

  “So what’s it going to be, Layla? You want to hear about the story of your tramp mother or should I just kill you and she can tell you in the Intoxian Heavens?”

  “Shut up, already,” Lisa’s eyes widened in disbelief. “My Mom did this and that! I don’t care. As long as I remember the good aspects of her character then that’s the only thing I give a shit about. Who cares if someone was a prostitute. And the reason why I don’t care about that is because I found out about that just weeks after she lost her life; thanks to General Tornado Poison. You know, you didn't even know that I was granddaughter, huh? So spare me the drama.”

  Lisa seemed royally pissed about the Sergeant’s response and how she said it. “Not the correct terms I'd use against your opponents.”

  Layla then pulled out a weaponry-sword from behind her back: Axe-Gun. The bullet hole was placed on the far end of the weapon. It was designed by the Northern Coast's military-advance technology by Hasosuke under a year earlier, very unique weight for her to withstand for various situations.

  “Ah, I see that you’ve never managed to disappoint me, my dear. It’s kind of funny how your whore-mommy—“ Lisa’s jaw was connected by Sophia’s Magmaruna Boiler Fist with the full potential of trying to grill her whole face straight to the debts of hell. Her body rocketed towards one of the walls that’s close-by the entrance of the Lobby.

  “Man, I hate people who bring up some stuff that most people don’t want to think about. We’re here to take our young friend back. Not talk about other people’s past problems just to try and win in a cheap way. Oh, I forgot, there are no rules in a death battle. Even some of the dumbest soldiers in the army wouldn’t even think to do something that ridiculous because that’s dishonorable.”

  Lisa crawled out of a pillar of rocks that nearly covered her body as the pebbles of all sizes fell down. She swiftly rubbed the bridge of her nose and spoke, “Seems to me like I’m going to be having some fun tonight, ladies. What do you say? How would like to die?”

  Layla gave an irresistable conclusion that provoked her to use the full potential of her skills, “Either way you want. But know this: If there’s neither a Heaven nor a hell, I will be back to fight you again and again if you can’t kill me.”

  Staring endlessly after hearing what was said, Lisa seemed as if she had to put in more effort into defeating her opponents to a bloody pulp.

  “If you wish to believe that either of those places exist, then I’ll be sure to go all out against you,” Lisa strangely matured her tone for the moment before she made a choice of going to the extreme. The gravity around the three of them begun erupting once Lisa made her move. “I’m going to be sure that you military beasts never live to see another day!”

  ***

>   The immense duel between Marscilla and the Intoxia Warriors continued. As she pursued her attempt to killing them, Lola had finally relaxed herself and lied Crystal’s head down in her lap. She didn’t know what to think about once she’s had the chance to do so. Lorishisasha had embraced them within her Flame Barrier without either of their presence exposed. Even if Marscilla were to charge at them head-on, the barrier would have automatically smacked her back.

  Several minutes had passed and Lola barely had anything to say about her actions for the past month and how it ultimately came to this. The Mizuka Phoenix saw something special and enchanting about this relationship and how it made her shed tears of no return.

  “Crystal,” Lola whispered quietly. “Baby, can you hear my voice?”

  It wasn’t as strong as Lola had wanted it to be. Black had manipulated the gal to release every dark energy she’s kept bottled up in her heart for the longest time and made her use it against the wrong people that’s been in her life for as long as she remembered.

  Lora then intervened and thought about giving Lola some advice about speaking her mind completely and how she can solve her problems verbally with others. But as mentioned earlier, Lola’s never really apologized to clearly anyone. And even if that was feasible, it wouldn’t be enough or convincing to satisfied the person offended by her actions.

  “What am I doing wrong, Lorashisasha? Please tell me. I love this girl and I would fall into a pool of depression if I let this girl become an afterlife citizen. I’m begging you, Lorashisasha. Please explain what am I doing wrong? I have done every fucking thing I could to protect this girl for fifteen years, and all I want is something in return is for Goddess Diamond to give me a second chance!”