Chapter 39
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Age 1990
Hero stared in shock as Jackson ripped his greatsword out of the ground. The Vice-Captain was covered in blood, and snow, and most of his clothing was turned into ribbons but at that moment Hero knew he was completely safe.
"Sorry, I'm late..." Jackson stated smiling slightly as he turned to look at the Earl that was just now getting back up. "I had to carry both of them..." He stated pointing a thumb over his shoulder.
"Cloud! North!" Hero said smiling slightly when he saw the two. The two teens weakly waved at him. They both looked pretty beat up, but compared to what Ken, Hero, and Kitsune, had to go through they actually looked like they could still fight.
"Hero..." Maudite said sitting up. "We need to leave..." She said slowly as she let out a sniffle.
"Believe me. I'd love to move... But I kind of can't!" Hero said letting out a sheepish laugh.
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"What do you?" Maudite stopped as she looked Hero up and down. The boy's shirt, and jacket had been nearly completely destroyed from the back end. From the front, it looked perfectly fine but in the back, there was a massive hole from where he had been punched. His back was visible from the hole showing off how bruised and battered it was. His entire back was a sickly shade of purple. Both his arms hung from his side uselessly. They were both unbelievable skinny and looked so frail... Clearly a side effect from him pushing his body to far. Finally was his legs... They couldn't be seen. Or at least most of them couldn't. It seemed as if the monster had quite literally beat him into the ground as his legs weren't visible. His torso just stuck out of the ground. "Oh, Hero... You're like this because of me..." Maudite said sniffling slightly. "I'm so sorry..." She cried out grabbig onto him as she sobbed.
"Yeah... I'm kind of stuck here..." Hero said laughing again as he gave a sheepish smile. "I can't even move my pinky, or my toes anymore..."
"Looks like that Earl got you pretty good..." Jackson said smiling slightly as he pointed his blade at the beast. "Well just sit back young Hero... I'll end this thing quick then get all of you inside!" He announced. "I'm going all out on this thing... I'll teach it a lesson for picking on all of you. Just as soon as I thank it for beating the shit out of Kitsune!"
"Mr. Storm..." Kitsune cried out mustering a smile when he saw the man. "You came back to save us..."
"Oh thank God..." Ken said breaking out into a coughing fit as she collapsed to her knees. "I think I'm done fighting... At least for now." She said completely falling unconscious as her eyes rolled back.
"This thing looks kind of dangerous..." Jackson said nodding slightly. "Unlike the Earl, I fought earlier this thing is clearly an adult, that is all grown up... No matter... At the end of the day, an Earl is still an Earl!" Jackson threw his greatsword into the air as he slammed both his hands together. Then suddenly a white aura exploded around him like white flames.
Hero's eyes widened as he recognized that. 'That's... That's what Max did!' Hero thought with wide shocked eyes. 'What is that!'
The Earl let out a loud roar as Jackson reached out catching his greatsword. His electric blue eyes stared at the beast as his entire sword glowed a bright white. "Pero..." Jackson said quietly. Then suddenly his entire sword lit up as a bright white aura covered it and his body. It seemed to bend the air around it, as whatever Jackson did, it was strong enough to physically mess with the fabric of friction, and reality, bending space itself, even if it was only by a small amount.
Then suddenly Jackson was gone? In a massive crackle of lightning Jackson suddenly appeared behind the monster. Jackson gave a slight smile as he threw his blade into the air. The glowing around him stopped as his blade went back to normal losing the silver color around it.
Then finally Jackson spoke saying only two very simple words...
"I win." He stated in an extremely serious, extremely calm voice... "Fall A Part..."
There was a brief flicker of silver light as the Earl's eyes slowly widened. Several hundreds of tiny white lines appeared all across its body... Then suddenly it fell apart...
It just fell apart! Like one second it was standing perfectly calm and still. The next, chunks of it just started coming off of it!?
"That was badass..." Hero said with wide eyes staring at the many, many parts of the monsters. "I wanna do that..." He muttured out as Muadite still held onto him crying.
"Hmm... That's just like a Vice-Captain, and a Noble!" Kitsune stated nodding his head slightly. "Of course he would be capable of obliterating an Earl the moment he got serious! On another note why is the ground getting closer-"
'Smack!'
Kitsune collapsed on the ground completely unconscious.
"Huh..." Hero said in surprise. "Guess I'm the last one to fall unconscious... You know it is funny... I don't even feel any pain- Oh... Wait... Now I'm feeling it. Oww..."
Jackson gave a smirk as he caught his sword placing it back on his back. "Well, that takes care of that..." He announced cheerfully.
"Enforcer!" A loud voice angry, gruff, voice announced out.
Everyone turned to see father Darvin marching towards them, with a fire in his eyes as he openly glared at Jackson. Maudite instantly froze up as she hid behind Hero using the boy as a barrier between her and the old man.
"Yo father-"
"You utter bastard!" The man yelled out swinging his cane up and smacking Jackson over the head with it. "Look at what your group has done!" He shouted out. He waved his arms around and for the first time the Enforcers really took in the state of the damage... Everything but the stone building was destroyed... Just rubble everywhere... "My Villiage is gone! half the citizens are injured! We've lost all our vegetables! And worse yet you are hanging out with that girl!" He shouted pointing at Maudite.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" Hero barked out. "Maudite hasn't done anything wrong!"
"She's a witch! She cursed us! I just know it! She's the one letting the monsters come here!"
"You keep saying she is a witch?" Jackson pointed out. "But you never gave us a valid reason."
"Her parents were psychotic!" Darvin screamed out. "I never should have offered to take care of their daughter! I should have just let her die with her parents..." He growled out through gritted teeth. "All of this is because of her bloodline..."
Maudite broke down as she fell to her knees crying once again. Cloud reached out placing a hand on the girl's shoulder as he walked her away from the crazy old man.
"Dude she's like twelve..." Hero said giving the father a deadpan stare.
"Look!" Jackson said holding his hands up. "We can talk about this all later. Right now we need to get inside and rest!"
"Rest! Rest! You haven't even done the one thing I asked you to do yet!" The screamed. "The nest is still there!"
"How do you know that?"
"I... Umm... Well... Uhh... You see. Hey your recruit looks like he is in a lot of pain!"
"Huh..." Hero said slowly. "You know. Now that I am just sitting here... I think the pain is getting worse? Yep... It is definitely getting worse. Huh?" Hero suddenly fell forward breaking out into a coughing fit as his entire skull felt as if it would burst. He screamed out as his head hit the snow as he slammed it down in pain.
"Hero!" Irene shouted running over to his side again. "Damn it... He's running a fever again! Oww!" She shouted pulling her hand back as smoke began to come off of her hand.
Hero screamed in pain as his eyes almost seemed to glow for a brief second. He tried to breathe but found himself unable to do so when a white liquid began to bubble out of his throat causing him to gasp. 'I told you not to try and go past me...' A voice screamed out in Hero's head. For a brief moment, the boy thought he saw a Lab coat? 'It would seem you grew in power way to fast... If I allow your body to heal you could become more accustomed to using Jane's Attrubuite and I can not allow that... As per Doctor Hydes orders, I will end you before you can begin to pose a threat to the-'
Maudite reached out placing a hand on Hero's head. Her entire body glowed a bright blue as she closed her eyes. Then suddenly a red aura exploded out of her. The red aura took shape around her body becoming what looked like a suit of armor around her, but they were still made out of the aura. It was a strange sight? Maudite's blue eyes, and blue high lights changed both becoming red as a slightly sinister smirk seemed to appear on her face.
"This might hurt... A lot..." She announced smirking slightly as she stared down at Hero.
"What?"
A red aura surrounded Hero's body as his eyes flashed red. 'What!' The voice of the Lab Coat screamed out. 'No! Wait!'
"Yes!" Maudite said confusing everyone but Hero as they were unable to hear the coats voice. "Lockdown level ten." She announced out.
Then suddenly the red light was gone. Maudite fell forward as her hair and eyes both turned back to a blue. The aura around her vanished as she reached out catching herself.
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"...Okay, so I'm not the only one who has no idea what the hell just happened right?" Irene questioned out in complete and utter confusion. 'What the hell was any of that?" She yelled out throwing her arms up.
"I have no God Damn clue what that was..." Jackson said with wide eyes.
Hero fell forward as he suddenly began to throw up. He coughed out as a white liquid dripped from his mouth. But it seemed he was able to breathe again as he took several gasps of breath. Steam seemed to start coming off of his body as he let out a satisfied sigh. "Wow... I feel so much better..."
"I sealed whoever the hell that was in your mind away..." Maudite said quietly. "I wasn't able to beat him though, so whatever that thing is doing to your mind it won't be able to keep doing it but, everything else it has already done will remain the same until you beat it yourself."
"How the hell do I do that?" Hero questioned.
"I have no idea..." The twelve-year-old girl said shrugging. "You should defiantly see a therapist..."
"Okay! What was that!" Jackson questioned turning to Maudite? "You. Explain?"
"There is something inside of Hero's head that is messing with him and doing various things," Maudite stated. "I saw it when I was in his head while he was in a comma... Or rather the other me saw it and explained it to me. I don't know what it is exactly, but it is apparently something that is holding him back... Maybe? I don't really know?"
'My memories... And the reason I can use only one Attribute at a time...' Hero realized with wide eyes. 'I bet that's also the reason why I am so bad at using my powers... That's also why Grandpa didn't train me properly... He had no idea I was being held back like this?'
"What was that red light?" Jackson questioned.
"That was me letting my other side out..." Maudite stated slightly ashamed. "I usually don't want to as she is very powerful and dangerous but I didn't have much of a choice there... Thankfully if I only let her out for a few seconds it's pretty easy to pull her back in but if I leave her out for any longer than it gets harder and harder..."
"Okay..." Cloud said nodding slightly. "What's the thing inside Hero's mind?" He questioned.
"You'll have to ask him..."
Everyone turned to Hero...
"I'll let you know when I figure it out..." Hero said quietly as he slumped down. "I need a nap..."
"I think we could all use a break..." Jackson said. "Look. Father Darvin. I get that you are mad at us but just let us use the stone building thingy over there as a place to sleep and rest up at for the night. You have my word that tomorrow we will finish dealing with the nest, and when I get back home I will personally pay for any of the damages done to your village and will also higher drones to protect your village."
Father Darvin let out a large sigh as he banged the ground with his staff. "Very well but..." He slowly pointed over to where Maudite was. "...She will not be allowed in the same room as any of the villagers. She must stay in the basement."
"Fine..." Jackson said crossing his arms. "We'll be joining her down there..."
"Of course you will..." The Father said sighing out.
One hour later...
"Ouch..." Ken said hissing slightly.
"I'm sorry!" Maudite yelled out bowing down.
"What! No! Don't be! It just took me by surprise was all..." Ken said letting out a slight laugh.
Currently, the group were all sitting down in the basement of the stone building. All of them were covered in M-gel... They had all gotten to rest up for a slight bit and during that time Ken had woken up. Currently, Maudite was off in the corner attempting to heal the girl of most of her injuries.
"I'm sorry..." Maudite said again bowing once more. "It's just that I'm not really good with using my Attribute and I am pretty bad at healing with it in general, and well your entire body is messed up from a lack of nourishment so it keeps trying to fix that..."
Ken blushed slightly as she crossed her arms over her chest. "You know I'm malnourished..." Ken said embarrassed.
"My Attribute told me... You lost a lot of protein and nutrition from your last battle..." Maudite stated nodding her head. "Due to how severely messed up your body is it keeps trying to heal that first."
"My body isn't that messed up..." Ken muttered out.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you!" Maudite said again bowing for the third time. She seemed to like bowing?
"I guess it's fine..." Ken said cutely folding her arms and turning her head.
"How's your arms Hero?" Jackson questioned.
"I can move them again." Hero said opening and closing his hands. "And my leg has healed. I'm basically back to 100%!"
"Must be nice..." Kitsune grumbled as Maudite placed her hand on the boy's shoulder. There was a loud crackle of blue energy, before suddenly a mini-explosion went off throwing Kitsune straight into the wall! "...We have to rely on Ms. Boom, to heal us..." He muttered out as he slid down the wall.
"I'm sorry!"
"So what's our game plan?" Cloud asked suddenly as he turned to Jackson. "The Nest, I mean..."
"Oh, that's right," Ken said folding her arms as she nodded her head. "How did the Nest go?"
Jackson let out a slight sigh. "There's definitely a Nest out there," Jackson stated. "And we have some other problems..."
"What?"
"Apparently there are some guys out there bombing the Nest or something," Cloud said shrugging. "I dunno though? I didn't see anything though?"
"So we need to stop these guys right?" Kitsune said simply.
"That's right," Jackson stated. "Tomorrow we are gone a finish this mission. We're going to find out what's going on, then we're leaving and never coming back!"
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Age 1990
Hero stared in shock as Jackson ripped his greatsword out of the ground. The Vice-Captain was covered in blood, and snow, and most of his clothing was turned into ribbons but at that moment Hero knew he was completely safe.
"Sorry, I'm late..." Jackson stated smiling slightly as he turned to look at the Earl that was just now getting back up. "I had to carry both of them..." He stated pointing a thumb over his shoulder.
"Cloud! North!" Hero said smiling slightly when he saw the two. The two teens weakly waved at him. They both looked pretty beat up, but compared to what Ken, Hero, and Kitsune, had to go through they actually looked like they could still fight.
"Hero..." Maudite said sitting up. "We need to leave..." She said slowly as she let out a sniffle.
"Believe me. I'd love to move... But I kind of can't!" Hero said letting out a sheepish laugh.
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"What do you?" Maudite stopped as she looked Hero up and down. The boy's shirt, and jacket had been nearly completely destroyed from the back end. From the front, it looked perfectly fine but in the back, there was a massive hole from where he had been punched. His back was visible from the hole showing off how bruised and battered it was. His entire back was a sickly shade of purple. Both his arms hung from his side uselessly. They were both unbelievable skinny and looked so frail... Clearly a side effect from him pushing his body to far. Finally was his legs... They couldn't be seen. Or at least most of them couldn't. It seemed as if the monster had quite literally beat him into the ground as his legs weren't visible. His torso just stuck out of the ground. "Oh, Hero... You're like this because of me..." Maudite said sniffling slightly. "I'm so sorry..." She cried out grabbig onto him as she sobbed.
"Yeah... I'm kind of stuck here..." Hero said laughing again as he gave a sheepish smile. "I can't even move my pinky, or my toes anymore..."
"Looks like that Earl got you pretty good..." Jackson said smiling slightly as he pointed his blade at the beast. "Well just sit back young Hero... I'll end this thing quick then get all of you inside!" He announced. "I'm going all out on this thing... I'll teach it a lesson for picking on all of you. Just as soon as I thank it for beating the shit out of Kitsune!"
"Mr. Storm..." Kitsune cried out mustering a smile when he saw the man. "You came back to save us..."
"Oh thank God..." Ken said breaking out into a coughing fit as she collapsed to her knees. "I think I'm done fighting... At least for now." She said completely falling unconscious as her eyes rolled back.
"This thing looks kind of dangerous..." Jackson said nodding slightly. "Unlike the Earl, I fought earlier this thing is clearly an adult, that is all grown up... No matter... At the end of the day, an Earl is still an Earl!" Jackson threw his greatsword into the air as he slammed both his hands together. Then suddenly a white aura exploded around him like white flames.
Hero's eyes widened as he recognized that. 'That's... That's what Max did!' Hero thought with wide shocked eyes. 'What is that!'
The Earl let out a loud roar as Jackson reached out catching his greatsword. His electric blue eyes stared at the beast as his entire sword glowed a bright white. "Pero..." Jackson said quietly. Then suddenly his entire sword lit up as a bright white aura covered it and his body. It seemed to bend the air around it, as whatever Jackson did, it was strong enough to physically mess with the fabric of friction, and reality, bending space itself, even if it was only by a small amount.
Then suddenly Jackson was gone? In a massive crackle of lightning Jackson suddenly appeared behind the monster. Jackson gave a slight smile as he threw his blade into the air. The glowing around him stopped as his blade went back to normal losing the silver color around it.
Then finally Jackson spoke saying only two very simple words...
"I win." He stated in an extremely serious, extremely calm voice... "Fall A Part..."
There was a brief flicker of silver light as the Earl's eyes slowly widened. Several hundreds of tiny white lines appeared all across its body... Then suddenly it fell apart...
It just fell apart! Like one second it was standing perfectly calm and still. The next, chunks of it just started coming off of it!?
"That was badass..." Hero said with wide eyes staring at the many, many parts of the monsters. "I wanna do that..." He muttured out as Muadite still held onto him crying.
"Hmm... That's just like a Vice-Captain, and a Noble!" Kitsune stated nodding his head slightly. "Of course he would be capable of obliterating an Earl the moment he got serious! On another note why is the ground getting closer-"
'Smack!'
Kitsune collapsed on the ground completely unconscious.
"Huh..." Hero said in surprise. "Guess I'm the last one to fall unconscious... You know it is funny... I don't even feel any pain- Oh... Wait... Now I'm feeling it. Oww..."
Jackson gave a smirk as he caught his sword placing it back on his back. "Well, that takes care of that..." He announced cheerfully.
"Enforcer!" A loud voice angry, gruff, voice announced out.
Everyone turned to see father Darvin marching towards them, with a fire in his eyes as he openly glared at Jackson. Maudite instantly froze up as she hid behind Hero using the boy as a barrier between her and the old man.
"Yo father-"
"You utter bastard!" The man yelled out swinging his cane up and smacking Jackson over the head with it. "Look at what your group has done!" He shouted out. He waved his arms around and for the first time the Enforcers really took in the state of the damage... Everything but the stone building was destroyed... Just rubble everywhere... "My Villiage is gone! half the citizens are injured! We've lost all our vegetables! And worse yet you are hanging out with that girl!" He shouted pointing at Maudite.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" Hero barked out. "Maudite hasn't done anything wrong!"
"She's a witch! She cursed us! I just know it! She's the one letting the monsters come here!"
"You keep saying she is a witch?" Jackson pointed out. "But you never gave us a valid reason."
"Her parents were psychotic!" Darvin screamed out. "I never should have offered to take care of their daughter! I should have just let her die with her parents..." He growled out through gritted teeth. "All of this is because of her bloodline..."
Maudite broke down as she fell to her knees crying once again. Cloud reached out placing a hand on the girl's shoulder as he walked her away from the crazy old man.
"Dude she's like twelve..." Hero said giving the father a deadpan stare.
"Look!" Jackson said holding his hands up. "We can talk about this all later. Right now we need to get inside and rest!"
"Rest! Rest! You haven't even done the one thing I asked you to do yet!" The screamed. "The nest is still there!"
"How do you know that?"
"I... Umm... Well... Uhh... You see. Hey your recruit looks like he is in a lot of pain!"
"Huh..." Hero said slowly. "You know. Now that I am just sitting here... I think the pain is getting worse? Yep... It is definitely getting worse. Huh?" Hero suddenly fell forward breaking out into a coughing fit as his entire skull felt as if it would burst. He screamed out as his head hit the snow as he slammed it down in pain.
"Hero!" Irene shouted running over to his side again. "Damn it... He's running a fever again! Oww!" She shouted pulling her hand back as smoke began to come off of her hand.
Hero screamed in pain as his eyes almost seemed to glow for a brief second. He tried to breathe but found himself unable to do so when a white liquid began to bubble out of his throat causing him to gasp. 'I told you not to try and go past me...' A voice screamed out in Hero's head. For a brief moment, the boy thought he saw a Lab coat? 'It would seem you grew in power way to fast... If I allow your body to heal you could become more accustomed to using Jane's Attrubuite and I can not allow that... As per Doctor Hydes orders, I will end you before you can begin to pose a threat to the-'
Maudite reached out placing a hand on Hero's head. Her entire body glowed a bright blue as she closed her eyes. Then suddenly a red aura exploded out of her. The red aura took shape around her body becoming what looked like a suit of armor around her, but they were still made out of the aura. It was a strange sight? Maudite's blue eyes, and blue high lights changed both becoming red as a slightly sinister smirk seemed to appear on her face.
"This might hurt... A lot..." She announced smirking slightly as she stared down at Hero.
"What?"
A red aura surrounded Hero's body as his eyes flashed red. 'What!' The voice of the Lab Coat screamed out. 'No! Wait!'
"Yes!" Maudite said confusing everyone but Hero as they were unable to hear the coats voice. "Lockdown level ten." She announced out.
Then suddenly the red light was gone. Maudite fell forward as her hair and eyes both turned back to a blue. The aura around her vanished as she reached out catching herself.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"...Okay, so I'm not the only one who has no idea what the hell just happened right?" Irene questioned out in complete and utter confusion. 'What the hell was any of that?" She yelled out throwing her arms up.
"I have no God Damn clue what that was..." Jackson said with wide eyes.
Hero fell forward as he suddenly began to throw up. He coughed out as a white liquid dripped from his mouth. But it seemed he was able to breathe again as he took several gasps of breath. Steam seemed to start coming off of his body as he let out a satisfied sigh. "Wow... I feel so much better..."
"I sealed whoever the hell that was in your mind away..." Maudite said quietly. "I wasn't able to beat him though, so whatever that thing is doing to your mind it won't be able to keep doing it but, everything else it has already done will remain the same until you beat it yourself."
"How the hell do I do that?" Hero questioned.
"I have no idea..." The twelve-year-old girl said shrugging. "You should defiantly see a therapist..."
"Okay! What was that!" Jackson questioned turning to Maudite? "You. Explain?"
"There is something inside of Hero's head that is messing with him and doing various things," Maudite stated. "I saw it when I was in his head while he was in a comma... Or rather the other me saw it and explained it to me. I don't know what it is exactly, but it is apparently something that is holding him back... Maybe? I don't really know?"
'My memories... And the reason I can use only one Attribute at a time...' Hero realized with wide eyes. 'I bet that's also the reason why I am so bad at using my powers... That's also why Grandpa didn't train me properly... He had no idea I was being held back like this?'
"What was that red light?" Jackson questioned.
"That was me letting my other side out..." Maudite stated slightly ashamed. "I usually don't want to as she is very powerful and dangerous but I didn't have much of a choice there... Thankfully if I only let her out for a few seconds it's pretty easy to pull her back in but if I leave her out for any longer than it gets harder and harder..."
"Okay..." Cloud said nodding slightly. "What's the thing inside Hero's mind?" He questioned.
"You'll have to ask him..."
Everyone turned to Hero...
"I'll let you know when I figure it out..." Hero said quietly as he slumped down. "I need a nap..."
"I think we could all use a break..." Jackson said. "Look. Father Darvin. I get that you are mad at us but just let us use the stone building thingy over there as a place to sleep and rest up at for the night. You have my word that tomorrow we will finish dealing with the nest, and when I get back home I will personally pay for any of the damages done to your village and will also higher drones to protect your village."
Father Darvin let out a large sigh as he banged the ground with his staff. "Very well but..." He slowly pointed over to where Maudite was. "...She will not be allowed in the same room as any of the villagers. She must stay in the basement."
"Fine..." Jackson said crossing his arms. "We'll be joining her down there..."
"Of course you will..." The Father said sighing out.
One hour later...
"Ouch..." Ken said hissing slightly.
"I'm sorry!" Maudite yelled out bowing down.
"What! No! Don't be! It just took me by surprise was all..." Ken said letting out a slight laugh.
Currently, the group were all sitting down in the basement of the stone building. All of them were covered in M-gel... They had all gotten to rest up for a slight bit and during that time Ken had woken up. Currently, Maudite was off in the corner attempting to heal the girl of most of her injuries.
"I'm sorry..." Maudite said again bowing once more. "It's just that I'm not really good with using my Attribute and I am pretty bad at healing with it in general, and well your entire body is messed up from a lack of nourishment so it keeps trying to fix that..."
Ken blushed slightly as she crossed her arms over her chest. "You know I'm malnourished..." Ken said embarrassed.
"My Attribute told me... You lost a lot of protein and nutrition from your last battle..." Maudite stated nodding her head. "Due to how severely messed up your body is it keeps trying to heal that first."
"My body isn't that messed up..." Ken muttered out.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you!" Maudite said again bowing for the third time. She seemed to like bowing?
"I guess it's fine..." Ken said cutely folding her arms and turning her head.
"How's your arms Hero?" Jackson questioned.
"I can move them again." Hero said opening and closing his hands. "And my leg has healed. I'm basically back to 100%!"
"Must be nice..." Kitsune grumbled as Maudite placed her hand on the boy's shoulder. There was a loud crackle of blue energy, before suddenly a mini-explosion went off throwing Kitsune straight into the wall! "...We have to rely on Ms. Boom, to heal us..." He muttered out as he slid down the wall.
"I'm sorry!"
"So what's our game plan?" Cloud asked suddenly as he turned to Jackson. "The Nest, I mean..."
"Oh, that's right," Ken said folding her arms as she nodded her head. "How did the Nest go?"
Jackson let out a slight sigh. "There's definitely a Nest out there," Jackson stated. "And we have some other problems..."
"What?"
"Apparently there are some guys out there bombing the Nest or something," Cloud said shrugging. "I dunno though? I didn't see anything though?"
"So we need to stop these guys right?" Kitsune said simply.
"That's right," Jackson stated. "Tomorrow we are gone a finish this mission. We're going to find out what's going on, then we're leaving and never coming back!"
Age 1990Hero stared in shock as Jackson ripped his greatsword out of the ground. The Vice-Captain was covered in blood, and snow, and most of his clothing was turned into ribbons but at that moment Hero knew he was completely safe."Sorry, I'm late..." Jackson stated smiling slightly as he turned to look at the Earl that was just now getting back up. "I had to carry both of them..." He stated pointing a thumb over his shoulder."Cloud! North!" Hero said smiling slightly when he saw the two. The two teens weakly waved at him. They both looked pretty beat up, but compared to what Ken, Hero, and Kitsune, had to go through they actually looked like they could still fight."Hero..." Maudite said sitting up. "We need to leave..." She said slowly as she let out a sniffle."Believe me. I'd love to move... But I kind of can't!" Hero said letting out a sheepish laugh. Find authorized novels in Webnovelfaster updates, better experiencePlease click www.webnovel.com for visiting. "What do you?" Maudite stopped as she looked Hero up and down. The boy's shirt, and jacket had been nearly completely destroyed from the back end. From the front, it looked perfectly fine but in the back, there was a massive hole from where he had been punched. His back was visible from the hole showing off how bruised and battered it was. His entire back was a sickly shade of purple. Both his arms hung from his side uselessly. They were both unbelievable skinny and looked so frail... Clearly a side effect from him pushing his body to far. Finally was his legs... They couldn't be seen. Or at least most of them couldn't. It seemed as if the monster had quite literally beat him into the ground as his legs weren't visible. His torso just stuck out of the ground. "Oh, Hero... You're like this because of me..." Maudite said sniffling slightly. "I'm so sorry..." She cried out grabbig onto him as she sobbed."Yeah... I'm kind of stuck here..." Hero said laughing again as he gave a sheepish smile. "I can't even move my pinky, or my toes anymore...""Looks like that Earl got you pretty good..." Jackson said smiling slightly as he pointed his blade at the beast. "Well just sit back young Hero... I'll end this thing quick then get all of you inside!" He announced. "I'm going all out on this thing... I'll teach it a lesson for picking on all of you. Just as soon as I thank it for beating the shit out of Kitsune!""Mr. Storm..." Kitsune cried out mustering a smile when he saw the man. "You came back to save us...""Oh thank God..." Ken said breaking out into a coughing fit as she collapsed to her knees. "I think I'm done fighting... At least for now." She said completely falling unconscious as her eyes rolled back."This thing looks kind of dangerous..." Jackson said nodding slightly. "Unlike the Earl, I fought earlier this thing is clearly an adult, that is all grown up... No matter... At the end of the day, an Earl is still an Earl!" Jackson threw his greatsword into the air as he slammed both his hands together. Then suddenly a white aura exploded around him like white flames.Hero's eyes widened as he recognized that. 'That's... That's what Max did!' Hero thought with wide shocked eyes. 'What is that!'The Earl let out a loud roar as Jackson reached out catching his greatsword. His electric blue eyes stared at the beast as his entire sword glowed a bright white. "Pero..." Jackson said quietly. Then suddenly his entire sword lit up as a bright white aura covered it and his body. It seemed to bend the air around it, as whatever Jackson did, it was strong enough to physically mess with the fabric of friction, and reality, bending space itself, even if it was only by a small amount.Then suddenly Jackson was gone? In a massive crackle of lightning Jackson suddenly appeared behind the monster. Jackson gave a slight smile as he threw his blade into the air. The glowing around him stopped as his blade went back to normal losing the silver color around it.Then finally Jackson spoke saying only two very simple words..."I win." He stated in an extremely serious, extremely calm voice... "Fall A Part..."There was a brief flicker of silver light as the Earl's eyes slowly widened. Several hundreds of tiny white lines appeared all across its body... Then suddenly it fell apart...It just fell apart! Like one second it was standing perfectly calm and still. The next, chunks of it just started coming off of it!?"That was badass..." Hero said with wide eyes staring at the many, many parts of the monsters. "I wanna do that..." He muttured out as Muadite still held onto him crying."Hmm... That's just like a Vice-Captain, and a Noble!" Kitsune stated nodding his head slightly. "Of course he would be capable of obliterating an Earl the moment he got serious! On another note why is the ground getting closer-"'Smack!'Kitsune collapsed on the ground completely unconscious."Huh..." Hero said in surprise. "Guess I'm the last one to fall unconscious... You know it is funny... I don't even feel any pain- Oh... Wait... Now I'm feeling it. Oww..."Jackson gave a smirk as he caught his sword placing it back on his back. "Well, that takes care of that..." He announced cheerfully."Enforcer!" A loud voice angry, gruff, voice announced out.Everyone turned to see father Darvin marching towards them, with a fire in his eyes as he openly glared at Jackson. Maudite instantly froze up as she hid behind Hero using the boy as a barrier between her and the old man."Yo father-""You utter bastard!" The man yelled out swinging his cane up and smacking Jackson over the head with it. "Look at what your group has done!" He shouted out. He waved his arms around and for the first time the Enforcers really took in the state of the damage... Everything but the stone building was destroyed... Just rubble everywhere... "My Villiage is gone! half the citizens are injured! We've lost all our vegetables! And worse yet you are hanging out with that girl!" He shouted pointing at Maudite."Hey! Leave her alone!" Hero barked out. "Maudite hasn't done anything wrong!""She's a witch! She cursed us! I just know it! She's the one letting the monsters come here!""You keep saying she is a witch?" Jackson pointed out. "But you never gave us a valid reason.""Her parents were psychotic!" Darvin screamed out. "I never should have offered to take care of their daughter! I should have just let her die with her parents..." He growled out through gritted teeth. "All of this is because of her bloodline..."Maudite broke down as she fell to her knees crying once again. Cloud reached out placing a hand on the girl's shoulder as he walked her away from the crazy old man."Dude she's like twelve..." Hero said giving the father a deadpan stare."Look!" Jackson said holding his hands up. "We can talk about this all later. Right now we need to get inside and rest!""Rest! Rest! You haven't even done the one thing I asked you to do yet!" The screamed. "The nest is still there!""How do you know that?""I... Umm... Well... Uhh... You see. Hey your recruit looks like he is in a lot of pain!""Huh..." Hero said slowly. "You know. Now that I am just sitting here... I think the pain is getting worse? Yep... It is definitely getting worse. Huh?" Hero suddenly fell forward breaking out into a coughing fit as his entire skull felt as if it would burst. He screamed out as his head hit the snow as he slammed it down in pain."Hero!" Irene shouted running over to his side again. "Damn it... He's running a fever again! Oww!" She shouted pulling her hand back as smoke began to come off of her hand.Hero screamed in pain as his eyes almost seemed to glow for a brief second. He tried to breathe but found himself unable to do so when a white liquid began to bubble out of his throat causing him to gasp. 'I told you not to try and go past me...' A voice screamed out in Hero's head. For a brief moment, the boy thought he saw a Lab coat? 'It would seem you grew in power way to fast... If I allow your body to heal you could become more accustomed to using Jane's Attrubuite and I can not allow that... As per Doctor Hydes orders, I will end you before you can begin to pose a threat to the-'Maudite reached out placing a hand on Hero's head. Her entire body glowed a bright blue as she closed her eyes. Then suddenly a red aura exploded out of her. The red aura took shape around her body becoming what looked like a suit of armor around her, but they were still made out of the aura. It was a strange sight? Maudite's blue eyes, and blue high lights changed both becoming red as a slightly sinister smirk seemed to appear on her face."This might hurt... A lot..." She announced smirking slightly as she stared down at Hero."What?"A red aura surrounded Hero's body as his eyes flashed red. 'What!' The voice of the Lab Coat screamed out. 'No! Wait!'"Yes!" Maudite said confusing everyone but Hero as they were unable to hear the coats voice. "Lockdown level ten." She announced out.Then suddenly the red light was gone. Maudite fell forward as her hair and eyes both turned back to a blue. The aura around her vanished as she reached out catching herself."...""...""...""...""...""...Okay, so I'm not the only one who has no idea what the hell just happened right?" Irene questioned out in complete and utter confusion. 'What the hell was any of that?" She yelled out throwing her arms up."I have no God Damn clue what that was..." Jackson said with wide eyes.Hero fell forward as he suddenly began to throw up. He coughed out as a white liquid dripped from his mouth. But it seemed he was able to breathe again as he took several gasps of breath. Steam seemed to start coming off of his body as he let out a satisfied sigh. "Wow... I feel so much better...""I sealed whoever the hell that was in your mind away..." Maudite said quietly. "I wasn't able to beat him though, so whatever that thing is doing to your mind it won't be able to keep doing it but, everything else it has already done will remain the same until you beat it yourself.""How the hell do I do that?" Hero questioned."I have no idea..." The twelve-year-old girl said shrugging. "You should defiantly see a therapist...""Okay! What was that!" Jackson questioned turning to Maudite? "You. Explain?""There is something inside of Hero's head that is messing with him and doing various things," Maudite stated. "I saw it when I was in his head while he was in a comma... Or rather the other me saw it and explained it to me. I don't know what it is exactly, but it is apparently something that is holding him back... Maybe? I don't really know?"'My memories... And the reason I can use only one Attribute at a time...' Hero realized with wide eyes. 'I bet that's also the reason why I am so bad at using my powers... That's also why Grandpa didn't train me properly... He had no idea I was being held back like this?'"What was that red light?" Jackson questioned."That was me letting my other side out..." Maudite stated slightly ashamed. "I usually don't want to as she is very powerful and dangerous but I didn't have much of a choice there... Thankfully if I only let her out for a few seconds it's pretty easy to pull her back in but if I leave her out for any longer than it gets harder and harder...""Okay..." Cloud said nodding slightly. "What's the thing inside Hero's mind?" He questioned."You'll have to ask him..."Everyone turned to Hero..."I'll let you know when I figure it out..." Hero said quietly as he slumped down. "I need a nap...""I think we could all use a break..." Jackson said. "Look. Father Darvin. I get that you are mad at us but just let us use the stone building thingy over there as a place to sleep and rest up at for the night. You have my word that tomorrow we will finish dealing with the nest, and when I get back home I will personally pay for any of the damages done to your village and will also higher drones to protect your village."Father Darvin let out a large sigh as he banged the ground with his staff. "Very well but..." He slowly pointed over to where Maudite was. "...She will not be allowed in the same room as any of the villagers. She must stay in the basement.""Fine..." Jackson said crossing his arms. "We'll be joining her down there...""Of course you will..." The Father said sighing out.One hour later..."Ouch..." Ken said hissing slightly."I'm sorry!" Maudite yelled out bowing down."What! No! Don't be! It just took me by surprise was all..." Ken said letting out a slight laugh.Currently, the group were all sitting down in the basement of the stone building. All of them were covered in M-gel... They had all gotten to rest up for a slight bit and during that time Ken had woken up. Currently, Maudite was off in the corner attempting to heal the girl of most of her injuries."I'm sorry..." Maudite said again bowing once more. "It's just that I'm not really good with using my Attribute and I am pretty bad at healing with it in general, and well your entire body is messed up from a lack of nourishment so it keeps trying to fix that..."Ken blushed slightly as she crossed her arms over her chest. "You know I'm malnourished..." Ken said embarrassed."My Attribute told me... You lost a lot of protein and nutrition from your last battle..." Maudite stated nodding her head. "Due to how severely messed up your body is it keeps trying to heal that first.""My body isn't that messed up..." Ken muttered out."I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you!" Maudite said again bowing for the third time. She seemed to like bowing?"I guess it's fine..." Ken said cutely folding her arms and turning her head."How's your arms Hero?" Jackson questioned."I can move them again." Hero said opening and closing his hands. "And my leg has healed. I'm basically back to 100%!""Must be nice..." Kitsune grumbled as Maudite placed her hand on the boy's shoulder. There was a loud crackle of blue energy, before suddenly a mini-explosion went off throwing Kitsune straight into the wall! "...We have to rely on Ms. Boom, to heal us..." He muttered out as he slid down the wall."I'm sorry!""So what's our game plan?" Cloud asked suddenly as he turned to Jackson. "The Nest, I mean...""Oh, that's right," Ken said folding her arms as she nodded her head. "How did the Nest go?"Jackson let out a slight sigh. "There's definitely a Nest out there," Jackson stated. "And we have some other problems...""What?""Apparently there are some guys out there bombing the Nest or something," Cloud said shrugging. "I dunno though? I didn't see anything though?""So we need to stop these guys right?" Kitsune said simply."That's right," Jackson stated. "Tomorrow we are gone a finish this mission. We're going to find out what's going on, then we're leaving and never coming back!"
