09-29-2008, 01:47 AM
Chapter Six
Mailliw’s anger fueled his powerful strikes as he attacked Sonidow continuously. Sonidow, even though empty in his facial expression, had some trouble blocking and avoiding his attacks. Mailliw back spun and attempted to slash Sonidow in the upper body area, but Sonidow saw an opening. With great agility Sonidow flashed behind Mailliw and thrust his sword, wounding Mailliw deeply by his waist side. Even though Mailliw was mad beyond understanding, he could still feel pain and quickly drew back from his offensive.
Sonidow stood upright and flashed his sword, removing the blood from the tip of the blade. “You are wasting my time. I do not usually do this, but I’m going to give you the chance to retreat. Live another day.”
“You killed…” Mailliw began holding his side. “…my brother! I will not retreat!”
“He’s not dead,” Sonidow corrected.
Mailliw look back and saw Drahcir turning on his back, breathing heavily. But he made an incautious mistake by turning his attention away from Sonidow. Mailliw turned to see the tip of Sonidow’s blade extremely close to his face.
“You have lost,” Sonidow declared.
The young lieutenant’s anger gradually changed into fear but it still remained active. “I will not accept defeat. No matter who my enemy is.”
Sonidow smirked, “Then clearly, you don’t know your enemy…”
Drahcir staggered upright holding his abdomen area as he was also deeply wounded. He grabbed the handle of his beam sword and looked around. He could not find Marshall or Silva. But his biggest concern was his young apprentice, Mailliw. Then he heard a loud battle cry and quickly looked above at Dron’s larger outer wall.
Mailliw had taken the offensive and smacked Sonidow’s blade out of its position and quickly moved to attack. He went in for the kill aiming his beam sword for Sonidow’s midsection. However, Sonidow crouched, turned, and bashed his right boot into the chin of Mailliw who sent up into the air. The dark hunter was not finished as he leapt into the air with him.
“Mailliw, NOO!”
Drahcir’s cry did not affect the outcome. Mailliw was run through his abdomen with Sonidow’s blade. Then there was a slight pause while they were in the air. The skies above then began glowing blue and a large bolt of lightning came down upon the young lieutenant. His agonizing cry was terrifying. He passed before he hit the ground.
Drahcir was teary-eyed with strong mixed emotions running through his body. Sonidow landed on the ground and stood up. Then he turned his head facing Drahcir below who was glaring intently at him.
“Do not pursue us,” Sonidow began, putting his sword back in its sheath on his back, “or you will end up dead just like your brother.”
Drahcir held his beam sword so tight that it could’ve broken as he dashed towards the upper wall. Sonidow’s body began glowing with an inner bright light and, in an instant, he was sent into the air and took off into the direction of the northwest.
Drahcir got up to the wall and ran to the motionless body of his younger brother. He held him close in his arms and tears continually poured from his eyes. And suddenly he stopped. Drahcir took his brother’s beam sword and fastened it upon his belt. Then, looking into the sky, he let out a long and loud cry.
~
Robo looked stern even though Zabobula held a very hostile palm to his face that was radiating a large amount of raw energy.
“Zab what the Hell are you doing?!” Haywire said standing up.
He did not reply to him, “I will not ask you again Robo. You have the answers. Otherwise you would be dead along with every other former member of G4F.”
Haywire was caught in his tracks as he was going to say something else. Fice, Snorbet, and Sir Frog looked on from a small distance. Zabobula was getting impatient and quickly sent more power into his palm and was on the verge of releasing it until…
“STOP!”
Zabobula shifted the power in his palms back into the rest of his body and lowered his palm.
“I do not know where he is as of now,” Robo began explaining, “but I know where he is going.”
“Where?” Zab urged.
“To the LFE Castle,” Robo said. “All of them.”
Another question came up in the Red Stickman’s head, “All of them? What do you mean all of them?”
Robo began explaining the situation in detail, “Sonidow is leading an organization against the Empire called the Dark Rebellion. They are all former members of the Empire with the top members stemming from the legendary elite group of fighters known as the Nami Clan.”
“The Nami Clan?” Zabobula repeated.
Robo continued, “Yes, the Nami Clan were the Empire’s top fighters before it was disbanded during the early stages of the war against the Undead Alliance. The clan’s members had plans for making the Empire stronger and safer but MH had denied them an audience one too many times. Lord Razen said that their ideals were to reckless and dangerous to the security of the Empire. There was a big battle within the Empire afterwards. Most of the Nami Clan’s members were killed in the fray and the same was for those belonging to the Empire. The Nami Clan was reduced to half its size and their members took refuge in other parts of the world. But they took upon an oath that they would take revenge against the Empire, and it’s leader, who shunned them. Therefore, spawning the Dark Rebellion.”
“I see,” Zabobula understood. “Then I’ll have to go to the Empire then.”
“Wait you can’t just leave,” Fice said, “I am still supposed to…”
“Fice,” Zabobula interrupted. “Tell me something, can you fly?”
Fice’s words were mixed after Zab asked him that question. And with that said, the Red Stickman took off into the sky and headed north towards the Empire.”
“Hey wait!” Fice shouted.
“Stop,” Robo said, “It’s no use.”
“What do you mean?” Fice asked. “Who is Sonidow and what did he want with him?”
“It’s a long story,” Robo began, “And I don’t have time to explain it. We have to go now. Everyone, come!”
“Well that was almost a turn for the worst now wasn’t it?” Snorbet blurted out.
Sir Frog croaked and everyone began walking with Robo in front.
“You can’t be too careful around the Stickman,” Haywire added. “He has his own ambitions and they are never discarded unless you erase his memory.”
“So is that what you did?” Snorbet asked.
Haywire paused and then answered, “Yes, we had no choice. Long before this war, we of G4F were at war with Zabobula’s counterpart, UDL.”
“A counterpart?” Fice repeated.
“Yes,” Haywire nodded, “and even though we defeated him in the end, our original base was destroyed and were forced to migrate here and we became allies with the Empire.”
“Oh I see,” Snorbet said.
“So where does Sonidow fit in all of this?” Fice asked.
“He was an ally with us,” Robo began. “And I granted him the rank and title of Supreme Member. But he changed quickly and he began caring less for the safety of pretty much anyone.”
Haywire continued where Robo left off, “During one of the battles, UDL and Zabobula merged into a being of incredible power and Sonidow was there to fight him. The scale of the battle was so large the city that it took place in crumbled before the two. And our other Supreme Members did not have the power to stop neither one of them.”
“So we need to stop Zabobula?” Fice asked.
“Yes,” Robo answered. “We have to stop them from clashing otherwise it will be that incident all over again!”
~
“Where is Noir?” Azriel asked. “He was with you during the siege, no?”
“Yes he was,” Blue-Phoenix answered. “He was fighting Razen himself, but then he disappeared.”
“Well then do you mind if I take his place?”
Azriel and BP turned around and saw another cloaked Rebellion member. However his hood was off and face revealed.
“Ah Lukas,” Azriel announced the presence of the member, “you have arrived.”
“Traffic was terrible,” Lukas replied sarcastically.
“I bet it was,” BP grunted.
“What’s your problem?” Lukas turned his attention to BP.
“Oh there is no problem,” BP said. “Its just that…how do I put this…where do you get off thinking you can replace Kadaj?”
“Well for one,” Lukas began, “he’s not here. Second, I’m the only one here with skills close to Noir’s level. Unless you think you’re game.”
BP was silent for the moment.
“Enough you two,” Azriel said looking into the sky. “He’s here.”
BP and Lukas immediately looked into the sky and saw a white streak of light headed in their direction.
“What? Already?” BP said a bit startled. “When you guys said you had a ‘schedule to keep’ you weren’t kidding.”
Azriel smirked at BP’s naivety. “Oh there is so much more to that than we’re letting on.”
And in one bursting moment, the light dispersed and Evil Sonidow dropped from the skies. As he stood back up he immediately went into procedure.
“What is the situation?”
“The siege fell as expected,” Azriel answered. “Razen proved to be a little more than our soldiers could handle.”
Sonidow looked around, “Where’s Noir?”
“He’s gone missing,” Azriel said. “There was a big explosion in the Castle. He was fighting Razen himself.”
“That fool!” Sonidow snarled. “I told him to avoid fighting him.”
“Why is that?” BP asked.
“It’s his Justice Philosophy,” Azriel answered. “It can be an ally but it can also be a dangerous enemy.”
“It’s a never-ending quest for him,” Sonidow said. “The simple fact that he hasn’t shown up means that he could be possibly turning into a potential enemy. Razen must’ve said or showed him something that is causing him to look into his own morality.”
“So then I can replace him?” Lukas asked ecstatically.
Sonidow looked at Lukas and replied, “Yes you will.”
~
Far off to the west of the LFE Castle, the Dark Angel of Justice sat in a cave in the middle of a forest. He was thinking hard on what he should do. He does not like failure and as much as everyone else told him the siege would fall, he did not want that to happen.
He thought deeply to himself, “What should I do?”
Then the symbol in Razen’s eyes flashed in his memory and caused him to ask himself, “What is Justice?”
Escape is a two-syllable word that grants temporary peace in the present to a future victim.