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Nawx (Project IzeBorn Book 1)

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by Andrew Jones


  Kryptonite jumped forward and slashed several of the undead who were standing next to each other with his blade saw.

  "Nova, Blaze, we can't let them convince us that we're the ones at fault! Ciphereverie could be manipulating all of them into thinking that!"

  Nova sighed but she ended up nodding her head in agreement, "Are you in, Blaze?"

  Blaze bit the bottom of her lip as she was unsure about fighting, but the urge to fight overwhelmed her. She nodded her head as well as she pulled out her spear and lunged forward to stab into several of the undead. Nova slashed through the air toward a horde of undead, which sent a powerful wave into them. All of the injured undead laid on the ground, with their dried up blood staining the grounds of the graveyard. As they laid on the ground, they all began to shout loudly. The shouts created an echoing wind that would be able to do harm to Nova and Blaze, with the power to send them onto their backs on the ground.

  "T-The pain!" One of the undead shouted.

  "I-It's like I can't die, no matter how much pain I go through!"

  "N-No!" One of the undead children shouted as he was able to stand up on his feet, "M-My mother was taken over by Ruse- or that damned corruption, it killed her! I will never let those three walk free after that!"

  The boy screamed as a red aura surrounded his body. The rest of the undead horde gasped as their bodies were surrounded by the red aura as well, but they began screaming from fear as they were soon being consumed by the boy. The undead began to fuse into one huge being. The body of the newly created fused being glowed as it grew and grew. It grew into a huge being that would topple the realm of the graves. As the being opened it's mouth, the whispers and shouts of all of Humans and machines were heard, and they sounded like they were more fearful than overjoyed by the newfound power.

  "W-What the hell is this!?" Blaze shouted as she backed up away from the being as did Nova and Kryptonite.

  Nova gasped, "Some sort of superhuman, perhaps!?"

  Kryptonite nodded his head, "I would assume. This is a being of rebellion, a being who feels nothing but fear and rage because of the corruption, and seeks to rid the corruption by destroying it themselves."

  The being opened it's mouth to allow all the fused beings inside to shout. The body began to glow as it morphed into a new form. The new form would be a Human man with spiky black hair and all black clothing. The man opened his eyes to reveal nothing but white eyes, no emotion was shown in those eyes, but it was obvious that the beings inside wanted a more Human form instead of a monstrous form.

  The being lunged forward with great speed, swinging its longsword at Nova and Blaze. But the two females were able to block the quick attack with their own weapons.

  "I guess we were right... Humans really do depend on violence to resolve an issue." The voice of Drakkar was heard from above, quickly gaining their attention.

  Nova, Blaze, and Kryptonite looked up at him as he was standing on Zephyr who was floating up in the sky in the middle of Bastion and Septimus. He had his arms crossed as he glared at the three who were on the ground.

  "D-Drakkar!" Blaze shouted as she immediately jumped high up into the sky to attack him.

  Kryptonite shouted as he watched her jump toward their prime enemy, "L-Lady Blaze, no!"

  Nova watches as the fused being quickly strikes toward Kryptonite as it sensed the opportunity, though Nova came forth and knocked the being on the ground.

  "We won't let you destroy the world our newfound Gods are creating!" The being spoke, sounding like all the Humans and machines speaking again.

  Nova grunted as she watched the fused being melt into blood, which then soaked into the ground. She looked around, as she heard the muck sound of the being fusing into its form once again. Spotting the being, she saw how the being was more made of muck than actual blood and skin of the Human mimicry.

  "You... You made us into a monster!" The being shouted at her, screaming loudly afterward.

  Nova frowned at the being, "You made yourselves into monsters the moment you believed the Resurrection of Humanity was in it to actually save Humanity!"

  The monster being screamed at Nova as it stretched it's muck arm toward her and grabbed one of her arms. Nova looked at her arm and felt the muck cling onto her to the point where she could not pull it away.

  "We will sustain Humanity ourselves! We don't need anyone but ourselves!"

  Kryptonite gasped as he jumped toward the muck arm and cut it off with his blade saw, jumping right over the arm as he did so. The pain was apparent toward the monster being, as Nova was able to get the muck off of her arm and the monster had screamed from a reaction. Nova rushed over to Kryptonite and picked him up, quickly throwing him toward the monster where Kryptonite stabbed his way through the monster. The monster screamed, and all the Humans screamed along with the monster. But that didn't stop Nova from what she had to do.

  Nova closed her eyes and raised her blade toward the monster. A large holographic circle materialized around her blade where six strange symbols were created around the circle. As each of them lit up in a different color, the symbols created webbing lines that would connect into the middle of the circle, materializing a powerful beam that would charge up and shoot a rainbow beam into the monsters.

  "You Humans are unstable... Distorted, I must purify you before you lead this world into another era of ruin!" Nova shouted as she shot the beam.

  The monster screamed even louder as it glowed the rainbow color. As this occurred, Kryptonite walked to Nova and watched as the monster began to split apart. The Humans and machines who had been fused with the monster began shooting out, quickly falling to the ground of the graveyard. But as one of them fell down in front of the two, it looked like they had bee dead. Even Kryptonite poked the body's head to make sure it was truly dead.

  "Does this mean-...?" Kryptonite hesitantly began to ask as he looked up at Nova.

  She nodded her head, "Yes. Humans have truly gone extinct. Genocide in one go. But with my power, I guided their souls into peace and serenity where they can peacefully await the New World."

  "And that will happen momentarily," Drakkar shouted down at them from above.

  Both Nova and Kryptonite quickly look up at Drakkar who was up in the air still with the three Dragoonas. Back when Blaze had tried to attack him, Septimus had electrocuted her and forced her function systems to crash, she was now laying unconscious on top of Septimus. Kryptonite frowned as he jumped on top of Nova's head and reached up as high as he could with as much force as he had. He felt his fabric skin begin to tear as he reached up higher, but his paw wasn't quite as long as he'd like.

  "Drakkar, what are you planning?" Nova asked.

  Drakkar frowned, "I'm planning to create the New World, why else would I summon the three Dragoona to my side?"

  Nova frowned at him as well, "I'm the Nawx, I'm the one who is supposed to create the New World!"

  He grinned under his disturbing mask with the carved smile, "I've known that this whole time, thus why I didn't have you killed the moment I laid eyes on you. Listen, I have an offer for you. You've been a part of my master plans for quite a while now, and thus is time for you to finally join in to create the New World!"

  Nova chuckled, "No, I'll do it myself. Even if I have to take you out beforehand."

  "Huh. What a pity. And I was hoping you would've given up by now, considering your hardships on your journey." Drakkar answered with attitude.

  Nova frowned and gasped, "My hardships? Did he plot this all, all we've gone through!?" She whispered in a shocked voice up to Kryptonite.

  Kryptonite looked down at her and shrugged his shoulders.

  "Nevertheless, you've helped get rid of my Human problem. But you still have the machine problem, and the only person you can defeat in that case is Lilith- or the God of desire, Ciphereverie!" Drakkar shouted as he snapped his fingers.

  A ball of light appeared in front of Nova. It brightened by a lot as Ciphereverie appeared. She still
took the form of Lilith, but she had grown large white wings and a shining gold crown on her head. But it seemed like she had the same thing as Drakkar and Atreyu when she forced her body to turn black and her eyes red.

  "Just surrender, Nova. Humans do not belong in this world!" Ciphereverie shouted as she materialized a sword and shield of light in her hands.

  Nova tightened her grip with her dual blades and frowned at the God, making her dual blades glow a bright turquoise, "This world will be purified from a God's bloodshed."

  Nova lunged forward and stabbed toward Ciphereverie, but she blocked the attacked with her shield and deflected her right off like she had bounced right off. Nova landed down on her feet and walked around Ciphereverie, waiting for her attack. She raised her light sword in the air and shouted, which set up a lightning attack that would strike Nova. Nova gasped, but as she looked up at the darkness of the sky, the same circle with the six symbols appeared again. The lightning hit the circle which contained it within the circle. As Ciphereverie was caught off guard from the counter, Nova aimed her blade at the God which immediately shot the powerful strike at her. Ciphereverie screamed as she was hit by the lightning, and as a machine, she was greatly weakened by the shock. Nova took this opportunity to run for an attack, however, this was when Blaze had woken up.

  Blaze stood up on Septimus and drove off, making Drakkar and the three Dragoonas gasp as they watched her dive off. She spun around in a stylish fashion as she managed to quickly take out her battle axe. As she became closer to Ciphereverie from the ground, Blaze aimed the battle axe upward and swung down to gain a powerful physical attack as she dove right into her. Nova stopped as she saw Blaze diving into her enemy, and she covered her eyes slightly as a bright light emerged from the area. Ciphereverie was caught up in the light as Blaze seemed to cross out of the area right next to Nova.

  "Blaze..." Nova muttered as she looked over at her.

  Blaze turned to her and grinned, "I'm fine."

  "Y-You fools..." Ciphereverie's voice was heard through the bright light, but her voice became malfunctioned due to the overwhelming amount of damage to her.

  Nova and Blaze turn to her as the bright light fades. It seemed like Ciphereverie's body had been badly damaged to the point where she could barely function, but she was still able to transform her body into an enhanced form of herself. Her steel armed skin became thicker, and she was fully armed now, except she had a big red button of some sort on her back that would dim its color and then brighten back up every few seconds. Nova narrowed her eyes as she spots the God's possible weakness.

  "Y-You are m-machine, but you c-choose to still... F-Fight!?" Ciphereverie shouted, "This is why Gods were never born in this w-world! Because of the likes of you who do not respect their power!"

  Ciphereverie stabbed her new light spear into the ground and sent a wave of lightning shocks through the ground. The two girls gasp as they jump and leap over each of the lightning waves, knowing it would be sudden death if it were to touch them. After the attack had finished, Nova and Blaze were quick to strike Ciphereverie, slashing away her hardened armor little by little, but they would jump away from her every so often just in case she would prepare another attack. She shouted into the air as her armor grew big spikes that would protect her for a moment, but she again stabbed the ground to eject the spikes out of her body that would circle around and target Nova and Blaze like missiles. Nova and Blaze ran around her as they jumped and rolled in order to dodge each of the following spikes. Blaze was able to jump over Ciphereverie and make one of the spikes directly hit her.

  "These Humans of the New World need leadership! They cannot lead themselves without causing wars and violence that would lead to another era of genocide! We are the only ones whom can help avoid that!"

  Nova grunted before dashing toward her and dealing more quick attacks, "Humans are capable of living separately from Gods!"

  Blaze struck heavily against the area she had made one of her spikes hit her on. As she quickly slashed against her armor, she heard the little sounds of cracking, which meant they were slowly breaking through her armor. But before she could perform any more attacks, Ciphereverie shouted and quickly sent forth a powerful wave of light around her, which sent both Nova and Blaze away from her, dealing powerful attacks. Nova grunted painfully as she dashed into Ciphereverie again and slashed against her armor as hard as she could, quickly cracking her armor. The cracks quickly began to spread throughout her armor and with one more strong attack from Nova, the armor broke into several pieces.

  Ciphereverie was exposed, she had become vulnerable as Nova and Blaze aimed their weapons at her. She shook and looked down.

  "I... I was only doing what was right for Humanity..." Ciphereverie spoke quietly as she stared at Nova, "P-Please don't kill me..."

  Blaze frowned and growled as she grabbed her by the back of her head and used her spear to stab right into the back of her head. As she was stabbing it into her Blaze could hear the desperate begging of her turn into violent screaming. She fell to the ground as she began to bleed. Blaze screamed into the air as she continued to stab her at any vulnerable area. After she had stabbed her another fifty or more times, she dropped her spear and fell to the ground, starting to cry.

  "... How many more people I care about are going to die in front of me!?" Blaze shouted as loud as she could.

  Nova didn't know what to say, she was still completely shocked by how many times she had stabbed Ciphereverie. Was the God really dead? It seemed from this picture that even almighty beings such as Gods were no different than Humans. The way she begged to be spared was something that would haunt Nova in her thoughts. She was crying the same why Blaze would cry, or even Atreyu would. Nova sighed as she dropped her weapons and looked up at Drakkar who was still watching over them.

  "Hey! Are you enjoying all of this?" Nova asked him.

  Drakkar shrugged his shoulders as he dropped down from Zephyr and landed in front of them.

  "You two aren't the only ones with sadness in your lives... I've lost people I had cared for! The people I loved, just like you!"

  Back then, years and years ago, the world seemed like it was at ease for once. The world was far different in a little boy's point of view. Drakkar strolled the outer parts of his village when he suddenly heard the screams of people he found familiar. He panicked and thought of hiding, what his parents had told him to do in a situation like that, but he wanted to save them instead of abandoning them. He rushed off toward the village and that was when he witnessed the definition of chaos. There were people he knew killing everyone throughout the village. The friendly market people who gave him a free treat were trying to kidnap little children to take them away, the man who seemed to enjoy everyone's company was dead on the ground as he used a knife to kill himself. And oddly enough, all of their eyes were red. Drakkar remembers because that was the moment when he truly first felt scared, the feeling of the fear created waves through his spine.

  Though a man shouted at him to hurry inside, and without thinking Drakkar went inside with him. The place he entered looked like a laboratory, it was definitely a place he had never seen in his village, the man who offered him the safety of his residence was a stranger as well, and Drakkar was well known throughout the village as well. As he looked around, Drakkar had seen people's bodies piled on the ground next to a large hospital bed. The people were recognizable, his parents were even in the pile. Drakkar backed away from their dead corpses but he backed right into the strange man who took him and forced him onto the hospital bed. He tried his best to convince Drakkar that he should feel comforted instead of scared, he even revealed his name. His name was Drenawx.

  Drakkar awoke from what seemed like a long sleep. He thought all of the madness was only a terrible nightmare, but he knew it wasn't when he sat up and looked around, seeing his dead parents on the ground again. He screamed in pure rage, rage so powerful that it had hurt his chest, right where his heart was. He felt weak as well,
but he still tried to get himself off of the bed and outside. But as he passed a mirror he looked at himself. He saw that his eyes were glowing a scary looking red color. And as he became feared over his new appearance, he saw that the veins in his arms were poking out of his skin and changing into a black color. He felt a strange amount of power, and this made him grin as he looked back at his parents. Although he looked at this as a positive way to get revenge for his parents, he was still scared of himself and his power. He was afraid of what he would do in the future to himself and others. He just didn't feel like he was himself anymore.

  "And... That is why I want to bring about the New World now... My parents, they are waiting for me to bring the New World so they can breath and smile again, to see me again. I hear them whispering in my ears all the time. That is why I have to kill and kill and kill to save them!" Drakkar shouted as he laughed in a creepy way.

  "Drakkar... He's not himself, we have to knock him back into some sense." Blaze whispered to Nova.

  Nova frowned, "He's not himself? We can try to defeat the darkness within him, but I doubt that will work."

  Drakkar shouted as he materialized a long and widened blade from his hands. The blade was entwined from the deepest of his darkness as it held it's dark flames on the long blade. He looked forward at the two girls as he grinned, the look of bloodshed.

  "If you two won't listen to reason, then there is no place for you two in the New World- my New World!"

  Drakkar shouted as he shot multiple dark spiraling waves out of his sword. The spiraling waves shot directly at the two girls, Blaze was able to dodge the waves but one ended up hitting Nova. She acted like she was being electrocuted, as she stood still and screamed in pain, the dark shock waves coursed through her body as it soon disappeared. Blaze stepped forward and disappeared, quickly appearing behind Drakkar and begun slashing him. She was able to hit him a few times before he turned around and blocked her attacks from hitting him. He grinned up at her as his sword shot a powerful wave of darkness at her.

 

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