Intoxia Warriors - Mizuka Blood (Book One)

by De'Karhi Philpot

  “Now that you two have finally come out of that damn cocoon of yours, it’s time that you both stop delaying your deaths and just face reality as it is,” Marscilla developed ambition and happiness at the same time. “I’ve always had to have the rights to take your lives just as well as mine’s was ruined and stolen from me.”

  The Core General became puzzled and confused about Marscilla’s assessment. She then asked as she rose her sword up at the entity and formed a furious expression on her face, “What are you trying to say? That Diamond had no rights to decide what your destiny way?”

  Crystal wasn’t getting a detailed understanding of the Erisa assassin’s choice of words. She continued to peer over at Lola with the Avarian Beast, Kuronina still experiencing an interesting battle in her view. She wanted to go and engage the Beast, but in exchange, it would have ruined the whole purpose of obtaining the Diary Symbols after Diamond had encouraged Kuronina to put her trust in a child who never had any involvement in the decisions the former Core General had made.

  For the first time since she was able to release the Lioness Metamorphosis, Crystal had used her Energy Signal and used it to communicate with Marscilla.

  I don’t know what’s corrupted your heart and mind to joining the Bloodlust Revelation, but trying to take my life is not an excuse to make yourself feel any better, Crystal uttered towards the rogue warrior. If something tragic happened in your family that my Mom might’ve done, maybe she had a reason that she couldn't bring herself to tell you.

  “What are you talking about, Aruba? I know that what she did wasn’t justified. It was a very selfish act for herself and that pathetic army that Lola’s in charge of now,” Marscilla’s voice bursted into flames of animosity. “You wouldn’t even emphasize what it feels like to give birth to a child and only to have him taken away from you all because you finally found out from one of the leaders of the Global Government inform that you were born a demon and for your safety, we have to execute that child that didn’t even do a damn thing.”

  Lola was stunned at what was going on. She didn’t realize that Crystal’s used the Energy Signal to communicate with this monster, Crystal, you know mere words aren’t going to do anything to change her perspective of the army. She’s far too disciplined by Black’s evil deeds and manipulation to turn her back over to the good side. Don’t waste your breath on it.

  No, Lola. I know that Marscilla had her reasons, but so did my Mother. It’s true. Perhaps Marscilla should have known that she was born a demon, Crystal spoke rather provokingly. “But at the same time, it’s always best to get the true motivation. Even if Mom told me the truth, I’m sure that Marscilla’s finally found out the reasons.”

  Crystal. There was absolutely no honor in what she done accomplished. No one had the rights to do that to your mother. Attacking a helpless woman that never had the physical strength to fight back. I do have an understanding of that. But there’s also no rules in wars either. That’s something that your mother taught me. It’s either you kill or be killed. No excuses to why you couldn’t fight back. She still had a tad bit of strength to fight back, but it was a premature battle, Crystal thought back, unsheathing her sword. If you feel uncomfortable and let me fight her.

  What are you talking about, Crystal? This isn’t you, Lola had seemed highly puzzled at the personality change of Crystal. Moments later, the Core General had finally misunderstood Diamond’s wisdom until the last second. Crystal. Are you implying that you’re the one that has to be defeat?

  The young heroine was nerve-struck; she didn’t know how to explain to her mother-figure what Diamond had told her when it came to the motive.

  If the General had construed the Laws of the Aruba Bloodline more, she wouldn’t be so frustrated with the rules the white-haired angelic warrior had to follow to show her loyalty to Kuronina, who’s now analyzing the communication skills from the Aruba teenager.

  The General had thought about given into the logic of the Aruba Bloodline. Granted, she was annoyed at the illogical respect Kuronina’s shown towards her family. Despite the fact that she abandoned Diamond in her time of need for the battle.

  “Crystal, I’m going to step in and easily say, ‘The hell with your family’s law’ because this one in particular seems to be the most unfair that your mother told me right before she birthed you a month beforehand,” Lola had maintained her courage and lend Crystal the offer to face the reality of the Avarian Beasts. “Diamond wouldn’t have died had it not been for Black, Marscilla, or mainly, Kuronina.”

  The gravity of the air had developed into a heavier aspect. It had weighed down the individuals with a series of long, blue icicles decapitated from the ceilings and crashing onto the surface.

  Kuronina deteceted the boiling within her eyes. She had flashed her way right towards the General of the Intoxian Army with rage. However, out of the desperation of protecting the General and the Aruba warriors, Lorashisasha had burrowed her way from within the Orb buried deep in Lola’s body and stood before the White-Winged Beast.

  “You dare get in my way, Lora?” Kuronina’s seemed outraged. It was shown through her actions of what Lola had thought of her from the start. “I can’t believe you’d had the audacity to side with those damn animals that are humans.”

  “Oh, like we have the right to say something like that,” Lorashisasha. “We’re also beasts as well.”

  “Yea, but we don’t constantly go into battles just for trying to eliminate the one thing that God’s spent his time creature. That’s how pathetic the human race is. This is one of the reasons why the Avarian King and Queen exiled you because you shattered their laws by trying protecting a human woman from getting hurt.”

  “That’s because she had nothing to do with it. Avarians are made to show respect and tenderness to other races, no matter the cause. Just because one apple is spoiled doesn’t mean that the rest have to be,” Lorashisasha spread her wings out from within her, enveloping the Aruba Beast. “Crystal, Lola, you have a fight to win. Take care of Marscilla and get out of here.”

  She’s right, young one. We have to win, Lola narrated the Mizuka Beast’s orders.

  Marscilla waved herself at the two entities without slowing down. Swinging her sword, clean, at the Aruba fighter, but with the Diary Symbols under Crystal’s control, she had no reasons to worry that the Aruba Bird could’ve easily stripped her of her powers for breaking the laws.

  In addition, Lorashisasha, during the unconscious battle of all the fighters of the Intoxian Army down, she had to encourage her sister to let go of her mindless pride and take the battle into consideration. Unfortunately for that aspect, Kuronina had no sense of sympathy for Diamond or her daughter in the long run.

  Marscilla’s blade had swung miraculously with blur speed left exposed as she moved in closer while her opponent was pushing herself backwards. Lola had stepped in, using her holographic Burning Mizuka to create a diversion. It had caught Marscilla off guard into think that was real Lola. Once she made contact with it, the Erisa demon impaled the sword right through the heart. Milliseconds later, the crater of Blue-Eyes Fortress barely shattered into varies shapes and sizes after the Holographic Burning Mizuka was not only struck, but triggered as well. When Lola had used it to protect crystal, she channeled some of her energy within the special technique to expand out a mass wave of heat, instantly melting away the waters buried deep within the grounds of the Fortress, immediately breaking everything in sight. Kuronina was hoisted up by Lora as they were quickly isolated from the battlefield where crater had created an enlarged hole beneath.

  ***

  As Hitachi and the others were escaping Leserado, the felt the ground tremoring fiercely. Unaware of what’s going happening on the upper levels of the Tomb. It began to terrified Rouge as she damn near screamed in depression. She ran faster at the flames of her speed.

  They managed to make it to the Leserado Lobby where all the corpses of the Bloodlust Demon were slaughtered at the hands of a gro
up that mysteriously showed up without any warning.

  “What the hell. Who the heck took all these guys out?” Alex was stunned for a split second but was told by Ross to not worry about the results, just escaping was the only priority they had.

  In depth of how badly they were trying to fighting to live, the entrance of the Lobby had deliberately been blocked off. Shiver felt as if it was going to happen, which is why she had a backup plan.

  “Everyone, get behind me,” Shiver commanded, realizing that Rouge wasn't trying her best to listen to the Aruba Head-Administration. “Rouge. Please listen to me. I’m not trying to talk down on you. We’ve already talked about this, but I’m more concerned about life than death right now.”

  “Come on, Rouge. Trust her,” Hiba added with her hands placed on Rouge’s shoulders. “Please, just give her a chance to be an ally just this once.”

  Despite all the calmness that Hiba’s had towards the Apex Magician, she had to surrender her pride for once, but she still wasn’t going to feel as if she’s a complete fool.

  “Fine,” Rouge gave into temptation. She stood back as well as the other heroes and heroines and allowed Shiver to do her role: Getting everyone out of the Lobby before the monstrous waters smashing and destroying parts throughout Tomb of Leserado arrived to devour them.

  Shiver had positioned both her arms around with a gigantic chunk of energy to harden her surroundings. The first ability she used was the Frozen Wilderness. It erupted with a mixture of hail, snow and ice all merging together with the full force of developing to frozen hands of a giant, she used the last will of her stamina before she wore herself out to use the ability of the Aruba Blitz –King Of The Ice Age. What was explained to Crystal from Diamond earlier was there are more symbols located on the planet than what Diamond had suspected. Shiver only obtained the power of the Mammoth Symbol as a last resort to overcome heavier obstacles; I.E the Leserado Lobby. Shiver sighed before releasing her power of the Grizzly Beast Carnage. She used both her hands to manipulate the giant hands to whale the pieces that crash-landed before them. She had launched her hand wildly to break through the crumbled pillar to get to the entrance. But time was running out.

  In less than fifteen minutes, due to some of the bigger obstacles barely holding off the immense pressure of the water, it wouldn't be enough time for Shiver to achieve her goal to breaking down the immaculate force.

  “Come on, Shiver, you can do it,” Out of stunned shocker as she continued, the woman whose put aside her grudge with the Global Government had cheered on the Head-Administrator. “If you think that you can be trust worthy enough, then I’m not asking or telling to you get us out of here. I’m encouraging you.”

  Shiver turned around and noticed the expression on the owner’s voice and recognized that it was Rouge speaking her piece to not feel like a disappointment.

  “Rouge, what’s the sudden change?” Hiba smirked all of a sudden. “I thought you didn’t like her.”

  “Look, just because I was encouraging her to get us out of here doesn’t really mean that I like her entirely. Her skills and all I respect, but her attitude, it’s a whole different story to begin with,” Rouge confirmed with her actions and how she said what she meant.

  Resuming her task to saving everyone’s asses, Shiver had used a lot more force than she originally started. She screamed as she used the last bit of her strength to combine both her hands together. But instead of punching them head-on, she thought of railroading them out of the way. The reason why it was never thought of was because she was a bit delusional and worried about everyone to get them out. She concentrated, considerably long to have the Grizzly Beast Carnage do its’ part instead of being forced to obey her commands.

  Shiver, take it easy, Shiver heard another voice in her head. Looking around, she thought it came from one of the guys, but or it was probably just her imagination. Shiver, it’s me, Mammoth. One of the Symbols of the Aruba Bloodline.

  Shiver was stunned at what she just heard.

  ***

  With the waters still storming down, the three combatants were on huge pieces of the Fortress that shattered in half. Lola was the first to make her move, engaging Marscilla with their swords in a series of slashes. Sparks spilling in different areas. Marscilla had bent her body back completely and kicking the General in the back of her head.

  The General was lucky to come to a halt. Marscilla had used her sword to try and strike Lola from behind, but the red-haired Mizuka had pinned the sharpness of her sword to the ground to press the brakes of the Erisa’s speed.

  She forced her elbow, squarely into Marscilla’s face. Sending her opponent back, Lola flew at the target with her left foot connected, strongly at the woman’s stomach. Damn near enforcing the frame to fall off the pillar they were on. However, Marscilla had maintained control of the fall and hammered her feet on the bottom to extend her acceleration by soaring down even faster.

  Lola and Crystal followed in after her with Crystal’s wings consumed by the speed of the Eagle Symbol, giving her all the strength and weakness of an Eagle. The speed of both combatants had shattered the walls of the lower levels that were beneath Blue-Eyes Fortress. Leserado Balcony was on the verge of disintegrating a lot sooner than expected. But little did the girls knew, they had only one thing to worry about.

  Crystal had used her Lioness Symbol combined with the Eagle in place, to swiftly strike down her enemy, descending all three marks of the claw across the witch’s right jawline and face. Shrieking in agony, Marscilla fell back even further to strike her adversary. The Erisa killer had zoomed in with her hand in place as she supposedly made contact with Crystal's chest. Immediately, the Snake symbol had triggered itself and grasped the heart of the blade. It coiled itself around the child's body and had gawked over at Marscilla.

  Within a few moments, but Marscilla make an additional attack, she felt something wrong with the vision in her eyes. It lacked visual potential with the blurriness conquering her concerntration. She felt an enourmous whip from the Snake's tail once it was expanding from Crystal's lower back as she spun herself to deliver a shot.

  Landing spine-first against the wall and continously falling down with the others, Marscilla tried figuring out what the problem was. She opened her eyes and saw nothing but the emptiness of her view. Lola and Crystal were nowhere to be seen.

  What the hell’s going on? Why is my vision getting foggy? The oddly-pink haired demon was panicking for a split second. Therefore, she received a series of roundhouse kicks with the immense impact of the Lioness’ Symbol increasing the force of each blow.

  “Combo attacks are your specialties, huh, Aruba?” Marscilla uttered. Her eyes were widening through enjoyment. She then took the last hit after Crystal drilled the heel of her foot down into Marscilla’s abdomen. The destruction of Blue-Eyes Fortress had continued down towards the third to first floors: Maze Lab (third floor), Corridor Organization Meeting and the Leserado Lobby.

  Leading the scenes to where everyone else is located. However, the enlarged door that was prisoned by the broken ceiling from the fight above had light exposed. Once the entrance of the door was knocked down, thanks to Shiver’s force, the others were able to escape in time, but prayed even more to get far away because of the water and how it could still drown everyone and weaken everyone’s potential to swim.

  ***

  Back at the Facility, Isabella remained under the training of Alexander Hinura. Due to the orders and request of Shizuka to remain back at the Facility, Isabella had felt the need to try and develop her mentality to not being arrogant.

  She and the one of the Executives of the M.A.B (Medical Assistant Bachelor), Alexander, was in the middle of training. The Poison, undercover agent was in the first stage of the Gurasa Spirit – Wolf Mode. The Poison agent had felt exhausted, ready to give up. She’s big when it comes to running her mouth, but she’s not all so independent in her abilities in combat.

  It’s one of the major reasons to
how she almost lost her life at the hands of Emerald on of her previous solo missions from when she was sent to investigate the Organization Caverns with reinforcements. Unfortunately for her, that plan didn’t go as well as Shizuka had predicted.

  Isabella panted, worn out, nearly collapsing twice from a series of headaches during the fight. Her chances of fighting against Alexander were as slim and expected as the Hinura Medic could anticipate. He swallowed his own pride and decided to comfort the Poison Undercover Agent.

  “Isabella,” Alexander placed his right hand on the gal’s head. “What is it that’s stopping you from respecting your own powers and trying to down everyone else’s? Are you afraid of being strong for the right cause? Are you disappointed about the fact there was someone much quicker and more fueled with ambition than you?”

  Isabella tried to rose her head up, but was still panting. She took a few deep breaths. The numbing in her left leg is what stopped the woman from standing properly.

  Alexander stood over the woman once more and decided to walk away. But before he left the Training Room, his voice thoroughly echoed from the entrance to the Poison Agent’s destination.

  ***

  Chapter 56 – The Battle Approaches Destruction

  Storming at the Mizuka General with her sword in place once again, Marscilla’s body was beginning to feel a sudden aching. She barely had a strong tenacity of the blade but had to use the last will of her strength to gain the upper hand. However, from what she recapped, Crystal’s Venomous Claws (fusion technique of the Lioness and Snake Symbols,) the virus had been slowly spreading slowly but strongly through different parts of the Erisa demon’s body.

  Dammit, Marscilla felt tired. Her heartrate was sky-rocketing; as if there were no limits to how fast it was going. She tried to breathe, but suddenly lost her grip on the blade. However, she started losing contact as she closed her eyes and awaited her death at the hands of Lola Mizuka and Crystal Aruba. Out of pity, even after all Diamond’s told what the Erisa demon accomplished and had done to ruin the Aruba family with Black’s assistance, Crystal triggered her Eagle Symbol.