Sceldrant's Comet

by Michael Rogers

  *Twortz glared at Rachael, watching her slash incoming mud strings with her daggers.*

  Twortz: (I will become stronger than her.)

  Guardian: "Mud Shot." *It gargled a roar and suddenly shot out two bullet-sized pebbles, shooting one through Nathan's arm.*

  Nathan: "Argh!-"

  Trevour: "Sir!-"

  Luna: (Nathan!-)

  Destiny: "Yeup?!"

  Lezard: "Jinkies!-"

  Nathan: "Forget about me! Just take it down-"

  Lezard: "Quick healing shot, HEALING IMPLOSION! Quick internal light, INVOKING AURA"

  *A swirl of warm light flashed around Nathan's left shoulder, slowly healing his wounds.*

  Nathan: *Flickering light glowed in the wound, queuing it to start rapidly healing.* (This warm light is completely healing a bed ridden wound!-)

  Lezard: *He panted and leant forward.* (I'm running low of Neurons..)

  Luna: *She released the string, causing a small burst of mud to blow on the Guardian's shoulder.* (No matter how hard I try, these arrows seem to be getting weaker and weaker, aye!)

  Champion: *She looked at Luna, causing her to gasp in amazement.* "You've got powers too-?"

  Luna: "Wat are ya talkin' about?!" *She grunted and released the string to her bow, blasting another chunk off the Guardian's shoulder.*

  Guardian: *Mud continuously filled the areas it received damage.* "Why must you struggle?"

  Nathan: "Air Slash."

  Luna: "Harh!" *She screamed and released the string, causing an arrow-like pulse to collide into Nathan's air slash, causing a massive burst of mud to explode the Guardian's arm off.*

  Guardian: "Gnoarl!?" *It watched its arm fall on to the ground, causing its shape to loosen and liquefy into a puddle of mud.*

  Twortz: "Sonic Rush." *She swayed the violin across, blasting a scattered shock wave directly into the Guardian, bursting half of its side away.*

  Nathan: *His hair swayed back in the direction of Twortz's shock wave.* (Whoa-?!)

  Twortz: "Sonic Roar." *She screamed out an echoing vortex, suddenly blasting into the Guardian's chest, blowing a large hole in it.*

  Champion: "Oh my, whoever that was, is very powerful."

  Guardian: "Mud Shot." *It suddenly shot out five bullet-sized pebbles, shooting them all towards Twortz.*

  Twortz: "Oh-?!" *She gasped with widening eyes.*

  Trevour: "DUST STORM" *He punched his fists together, blasting a swirling vortex of dirt in front of Twortz.*

  *The pebbles shot into the swirling dirt, causing them to pop out of the other side.*

  Twortz: *She looked down, staring at the pebbles in shock.* (The dirt acted as a cushion-) "Much appreciated whoever you are."

  Trevour: *He nodded his head in acknowledgement.* "We're not out of this yet, lady."

  Guardian: "Gnarrrrroolllll!" *Its eyes shined an eerie yellow colour, causing mud to string up from the ground, slowly restoring its body.*

  Luna: "No... This is bullshit.." *She spoke with lowering morale, slightly tilting the bow downwards.*

  Twortz: "If only I had something to increase my speed-" *She whispered under her breath and started to play the violin, causing its sounds to echo across the battlefield.*

  Karol: (Something to boost her speed?)

  Rachael: *She double kicked the Guardian and jumped up, side kicking it across the side of its face.* (Tssk!)

  *Rachael's foot started to sink into the Guardian's face, causing her to frown.*

  Rachael: (The resistance on its body, it feels like I'm running on thick sand!-) *She pushed her feet into the Guardian's face, allowing her to spiral back.*

  Trevour: (Wow, she moves like a skilled warrior!-)

  Karol: "Sacred dance, Speed Up." *He tap-danced on the spot and waved his hands towards Twortz, causing a grey sigil-like glyph to form under her feet.*

  Twortz: (This feeling.. I feel like I weigh nothing!-) *She jumped forward, blasting across the clearing at incredible speeds.*

  *Squish-like cracking sounds echoed from Twortz's ankles, causing her to hiss in pain.*

  Lezard: (Those sounds, sounds like a muscle being ripped-)

  Twortz: *She awkwardly stopped in front of the Guardian and placed the violin in between her legs.* "Sacred scores, Sonic Pulsar."

  *Twortz formed a triangle with her fingers and breathed into it, blasting a vortex of sound into the Guardian.*

  Guardian: "Ah-?!" *Its body warped from the inside.*

  Luna: (Its body looks like a bag of popcorn popping-)

  Guardian: "Gnoallll!" *It burped out a different coloured mud and focused, causing its body to stabilise.*

  Twortz: *She lowered her arms.* (Nothing-?)

  Nathan: "It keeps recovering!" *He grunted with the sword pointing at the Guardian.*

  Twortz: *She skilfully grabbed the tip of the violin and flicked it into the air, catching it in one hand.* "Sonic Rush."

  *Twortz waved the violin, blowing a scattered shock wave into the Guardian's face, blowing a side of its cheek away.*

  Twortz: "Hahahckee!"

  Rachael: *She staggered back with her fists raised to her face, watching the Guardian heal itself.* (Dammit.)

  Guardian: "A Score User, Remenistal User, Elementalist, Scoldrant User, Radiaton wielder and a dancer, this is a dangerous party-"

  Trevour: "Don't forget Nathan!" *He shouted and frowned with determination, failing to notice a stream of blood which ran down his face.*

  Guardian: "Ground, move to my body, move with my Astragons, quake and crack, open the natural gates of might's minerals, iron, copper, erode into my body and form the courage that rumbles in my heart-"

  *Green swirls of dust ringed around the Guardian's body, slowly crystallising on to its outer mud layer.*

  Twortz: (What a long incantation!-) *She started to play the violin, causing visible sound strings to swirl around her.*

  Guardian: "PANTOTHENATE ARMOUR" *Its roar echoed in a different tone, as a green crystal-like armour covered its entire body.*

  Nathan: *He jumped over an arm-shaped clump of mud and ran into striking distance, raising the sword.* "Double Slash."

  Rachael: "Rock Pillar." *She punched towards the green-plated Guardian and a rock pillar shot up, shattering away from the Guardian.* (Crud-)

  Trevour: "..." *He stood on the spot, looking at each party member in a defensive-like manner.*

  Karol: *He continued to tap-dance, allowing Twortz to move at incredible speeds.* (I'm sckared.)

  Luna: "Harh!" *She released the string to her bow, blasting another arrow at the Guardian.*

  Champion: *She watched a blast of wind flick off the Guardian like an arrow.* (No effect-)

  Rachael: *She listened to the violin sounds, drawing her attention to Twortz.* (A violin? When did she-?)

  Twortz: "Hiyah!" *She swayed forward, blasting the sound strings towards the Guardian.*

  Guardian: *The sound strings hit the armour, causing a foil-like warping sound to be heard.* "Gnoael."

  Nathan: "It's no use!-"

  Guardian: "My head!-" *It quickly flicked its arm and punched Rachael back towards Luna and the champion.*

  Karol: "Waichael!-" *He squealed and stopped dancing, causing the sigil-like glyph to fade from under Twortz.*

  Guardian: *It focused on Twortz and straightened an arm towards her, forming a fist.* "Die!"

  Rachael: *She tumbled across the ground, kicking mud into the air.* (That hurt!-)

  Lezard: "Quick healing shot, HEALING IMPLOSION" *He swayed his arms around Rachael, queuing her wounds to rapidly heal.*

  Rachael: "Thanks, Lezard." *She moaned and shook her head, rolling to one side.*

  Nathan: "Get out of the way!" *He shouted at Twortz in an urgent-like manner, as if he knew the next attack was going to be a critical.*

  Twortz: "Sphere of Might." *She jumped on the spot and a visible sphere-like shock wave expanded from her feet.*

  Guardian: "STEELIGHT RETENTION" *It punched forward and i
ts arm snapped off, firing itself towards Twortz like a missile.*

  Rachael: "Twortz!"

  Twortz: "..." *She watched the missile-like arm hit the edge of her sphere shock wave, causing it to misfire to the side.*

  Trevour: *He watched the arm spiral in the air and hit the ground, before tumbling into the bush.* (It sounds heavy!-)

  Twortz: *She squinted her eyes, pretending not to be exhausted.* (That attack may have missed me, but, its power... I've underestimated it-)

  Guardian: "You will not break through my defences!" *It gargled a roar and watched a mud-like arm swirl out of its armour, restoring its lost arm.*

  Champion: "Oh my, it's too strong!"

  Trevour: (Pantothenate Armour..) "In order to shatter its armour, there needs to be a simultaneous attack from its front and back."

  Nathan: "How do you know-?"

  Trevour: "Trust me, sir!"

  Rachael: *She looked at Nathan and nodded her head, as if she could trust him.* "I don't know who you are, but he's an awesome ground Rostical User."

  Nathan: *He looked at the Guardian and hesitated.* "Once we break its armour, we'll need to strike it right in the middle of its chest!"

  Luna: "Nah, it's head, aye!"

  Nathan: "No, its chest is its weak spot!"

  Luna: "So why haven't we bloody done that already then?!"

  Twortz: "You may not have noticed, but all of its movements have been defensive." *She paused and placed the dagger on the strings, readying to play her violin.*

  Nathan: (That's right..) *He thought in surprise.*

  Luna: "Twotters?!"

  Twortz: "I can handle the back side, someone handle the front."

  Lezard: "Jinkies! We'll need something strong!"

  Rachael: *She had a flashback of Luna and Nathan's combination attack.* "Luna, Nathan, combine your attacks!"

  Lezard: (Loona?)

  Nathan: *He recalled his air slash combining with Luna's air arrow.* (Our attacks did work, but I didn't know Luna knew any-)

  Champion: "I recommend you use the incantation to your attack if you know it, Luna."

  Luna: "Aye?"

  Champion: "Your Azure Burst."

  Luna: "I don't got no Azhure Burst, aye?!"

  Champion: "Oh? Then what are you firing?"

  Luna: *She looked towards her hand, noticing there was nothing in her fingers.* "There's nothin'?" (I thought I felt an arrow-?)

  *Luna lowered the bow and released the string, causing a small burst of mud to blast in the bow's direction.*

  Luna: "Holy shit-?!"

  Champion: (She is not aware of her power?)

  Luna: *She looked confused and shook her head, dropping to her knees.* (Everything with this retarded vision is so disorientatin', aye.)

  Champion: *She glanced at the Guardian, as if she knew Luna couldn't help.* "I have wind-based Rostical!"

  Rachael: "That should work-"

  Guardian: "Stop talking!" *It leant back and spat a ball of black sludge towards the champion.*

  Trevour: "Miss!-" *He punched the ground, causing a swirl of sand to tilt the champion's angle.* "SWIRLING SANDPIT"

  Champion: "Oh my-" *She watched the black sludge sway past her, smearing itself on the tree behind her.*

  *The tree started to turn brown around the sludge, causing the champion to gasp in astonishment.*

  Champion: (It's sapping the Neurons-)

  Twortz: *She started to play the violin, catching Rachael's attention.* (Ever since I understood the concept of Neurons and Astragons, everything just seems so natural to me-)

  Rachael: "Twortz, I thought you were going to attack it from be-?"

  Twortz: *She enthusiastically played the violin, causing strings of visible sound to blast towards the Guardian.* (Now, manipulate it with Astragons! The same way I did to Millard's flames!-)

  Nathan: *He watched the strings closely miss the Guardian, causing him to grunt in disgust.* (She missed, what a foolish person-)

  Twortz: "Hahahackee!" *She watched the sound strings sway around the Guardian, violently hitting into its back, causing echoing violin chords to be heard.*

  Trevour: (Still not strong enough-)

  Rachael: "Karol, help her out!"

  Karol: "O-Oh 'kay!" *He tapped the ground and started to dance, causing an orange glyph to spiral underneath Twortz.*

  Twortz: *She noticed a sudden thickness to her sound strings, causing the Guardian to respond to them in a negative manner.*

  Karol: "Power Up."

  Rachael: "Alright, guy with the sword and lady over there!" *She glanced behind her, shouting at the champion.*

  Champion: "Oh my, that's me!" *She hobbled out of the sandpit, focusing her attention to Rachael.*

  Nathan: "..."

  Rachael: "Use your fully strengthened attacks on the front!" *She shouted, listening to rock crack behind the Guardian.*

  Luna: (What the fuck? Now I'm hearin' violins?) *She closed her eyes in disorientation, as if she didn't know what was happening.*

  Champion: "O-Oh my!-" *She whimpered and hobbled to the side, dropping down to one knee.* (My Neurons?!)

  Luna: (Aye?) *She looked up, staring at the champion in confusion.* (Wat's wrong with her?)

  Champion: *She looked to her side, noticing a smear of black sludge on her arm.* "Oh no, the plan?"

  Destiny: "Yeu, yeu, yeup!" *She meowed to Luna, as if she was telling her to get up.*

  Luna: *She frowned in disorientation and slowly stood up, raising the bow to her face.* (As if I'm one of them weak assed characters, aye!)

  Destiny: "Yeu, yeu!"

  Trevour: *He quickly hobbled up to the champion and placed his hands over the sludge, causing it to dry out.* "There, miss-" *He brushed the dried sludge off with ease.*

  Champion: "Thank you." *She looked at her arm, noticing a red mark where the sludge was.*

  Lezard: "My very hunchbacked friend!"

  Champion: "Oh my? Yes?!"

  Lezard: "Quick internal light, INVOKING AURA" *He giggled in exhaustion, collapsing onto his side.*

  *A swirl of warm light flashed around the champion's arm, very slowly healing her wounds.*