The combination of guilt and utter exsaustion made
him lose control of the Crystal and he deformed back to
Nity.
"Hey woah" Nity fell back to the ground and hit hard.
"Ow geez why in the world is Razis turning back to me when
he is still in the air" Nity looks up and notices the
sacraficing Vile is still there. It is chanting words he
cant under stand untill the last three. Those words were
"Vile of Fire" and thats when the crimson Vile appeared from
the shadows.
"Oh goddess this day really sucks for me" says Nity.
"Celestial Razis Crystal POWER!!!!" but it doesnt work, the
crystal is exsausted. No Razis this time jut plaine old Nity
against a species of creature that all the CFs could
barely defeat together.
"Oh yeah this day definitly sucks"
CHAPTER 13
"Look, maybe we could work something out, huh?" Kyle says.
"Shut-up, will you." UA says. He walks off to another room.
Kyle takes that opportunity to reach under his glove and pull
out a pick. He begins picking his manicals.
"When I get outta here, I'm shovin' my fist down his
throat!"
Entropy's been here for quite the while after tracking UA. He continues his
task, flying after evil UA with a vengeance and distracting
him before getting his blows in with his razor-sharp claws.
"You just don't give up, do you?" UA smiled, licking
up a drop of blood on his cheek. As Entropy swung at him
with his sword, UA knocked it away, grabbing Entropy's arm
and giving it a twist. SNAP! Another kick smashes
Entropy's jaw. Finally, UA gives him a deep punch into his
gut, cracking a couple ribs and making Entropy cough up a
spray of blood. He crumples to the floor, hanging onto life
by a thread as UA lifts up Entropy's sword. "A fine weapon,
really. Where did you steal it from?"
"A mhan whit honnur nhevur nheedz to shteel..." Entropy
chokes out.
"Hmph. Honorable...To the last." With that, UA lifts
Entropy's sword high overhead....
+Nity, Entropy?+ Zelda thinks to herself, still a bit tired, trying
to figure out what was wrong with the two of them, she wasn't
even sure if they were anywhere nearby. She sighed annoyed at
the limitations of her psi powers.
Entropy gives a half-smile as UA prepares to strike.
"Did I tell you about that sword?"
"I know all I need to." Suddenly, UA drops the sword with a
shriek of pain. Looking at the Pommel, three inch long spikes
protrude out from the hilt.
"You've got to hold it just right...or it bites back."
Coughing up another spray of blood, Entropy grabs the sword.
"MORTUUM!" He cries, and a black blast of energy hits UA
square in the chest, knocking him up against a wall, hearing
a loud CRACK.
"That does it, bird boy. I wash my hands of this petty
fight." With that, UA disappears. Entropy smiles weakly,
then collapses, unconsious.
Ganthet, was just plain confused. He understood battle, but
without an enemy tp focus on, or another goal, he was lost
in this situation, "Any ideas on how to get out of this
mess?" he asks the others.
Evil UA reapears in the room holding Kyle.
"Sorry. Had a bat in my bellfry. Now, where were--" the
table is empty. UA is tapped on the shoulder.
"Hello." Kyle whaps him with a psi-assisted punch that
sends him through the wall. UA lands in the room where the rest
of the CFs are.
Kyle flies in and lands by Zelda. He weakly looks up.
"I know ya ain't all too keen on th' idea o' followin' my
leadership, but what say we blow this popstand?" Kyle asks.
"P-popstand?"
"Damn hermits." With a thought, he penetrates UA's mind long
enough to bring the rest of the Crystal Fighters through a
teleportal. The CFs look around.
"Now where are we?" Rupay asks. Kyle lands in front of
them, glowing with psionic energy.
"Yer in th' Vile lair, an' there's our enemy." UA is
quickly joined by Philite and Lady Darkness, then the rest
of the Vile that was chanting. "Crystal Fighters, MOVE!"
Kyle shouts. They've never been happier to follow HIS
command.
"How did they get in here?!" Phyllite demanded of the
nearest Vile and holding out a small vial of the poison in
front of it theatiningly. That paticular Vile was smart
enough to get out of the way, but dumb enough to bump right
into the Crystal Fighters. Phyllite shook her head as it
was destroyed by one of the CFs, "What is this lair
coming to? Crystal Fighters in the hall...Vile that are
stupid enough to come up n--" Suddenly she realized just how
close to danger she was at the moment. By this time, the
CFs that could, had transformed to their CF selves and
Phyllite was hit by a water vortex from Rydia and then a blast of
energy from Makara. Phyllite shrieked in agravation and
almost tripped over one of the Vile, then she pulled out
something she had used only once before and focused it at the
Crystal Fighters, detransforming them. +I hate when she
does that.+ Zelda thought to herself and quickly grabed some
reagents, but not before Phyllite had herself 'ported away.
Entropy wearily shifts in and out of consiousness. He
begins to recognise his surroundings. The Vile lair.
Hearing fighting up ahead, he longs to join the fight, but
can't, as his body tells him by forcing him to hack up
another spray of blood. Forcing himself to walk towards the
battle on borrowed strength, Entropy gives a sigh of relief
as he emerges, seeing the other CFs. Finally, he crumples
to the floor, another spray of blood erupting from his
mouth.
Krakken, on the floor where the others had left him,
weakly rose to his feet, wincing at the pain in his back.
He looked around in confusion, wondering where UA and
everyone else was. Taking it in like stride, he began to
search...
Nity comes blasting through the wall meeting the rest of the CF gang.
The Crimson Vile is in hot prosute of Nity. The Crimson Vile enters the room
and swings at the CF's. The powerless Nity, Makara, Rupay, Pyro, and Zelda have to
rely on acrobatic skills to evade the flesh searing fists.
"How the hell did we kill this thing last time" yells Pyro as the
CF's fight to fend it off.
"A little...help..." Entropy gasps, reaching out towards
Zelda. "Please...."
A large portal opens, a a robot climbs out. "Crystal
Fighters, I'm afraid I won't have my body for a while..."
says Zealen from the machanicle body of a strange robot.
Krakken saw a trail of blood leading away from the
scene of the battle. It could... ah, how his back hurt...
he... had to get... to help... get rid of... had to get to
help... get rid of... pain... it could... it could... lead
to UA... think I... saw him... wounded... hurting... have to
stop him... nevermind my pain... oh, how it hurts...
nevermind my pain... find him...
Clutching his suddenly throbbing head, Krakken stumbled
in the direction of the blood. He stumbled again, clenching
his teeth in agony. Following the trail would take a while,
but, in the name of justice, he would get there.
CHAPTER 14
Tala shakes her head, trying to clear it. Carefully, she
rises, and in doing so, trips one of the Vile.
"Ahh..great.",
Muttering about evil things, Tala quickly dispatches it, and
one of the other Vile that comes her way. Then upon seeing Nity
and Zelda fighting one of the..weirder looking ones, she
heads towards them, all the while making mincemeat of the
other Vile that try to attack her.
Hearing Entropy, Rupay fumbles her way to him. ''How are you
hurt?'' Rupay asks with concern on her face.
The CF's moved back as the Crimson Vile advances. The CF's
back into a corner, no where to go, trapped, dead.
No there is hope as a bright flame streaks down out of no
where. Its a man in flames. A person they havent seen in
quite a while. Its the mystery man known as Lavaz.
He blast the Crimson Vile with a blast of his own fire. The
Vile turns around to attack.
Lavaz shakes his finger when the Vile advances. Lavaz doesnt
seem the least bit scared. Lavaz knowns something no one
else does.
Lavaz flies strait at the Vile and shoots right through it
instantly takeing all of its flames with him. Absorbing them
The Vile is left helpless and ordinary and the CF's quickly
finish it off.
Lavaz gives his usual thumbs up and dissapears into the
ceiling by flying right through it.
Zelda looked in surprise at the vanishing Lavaz and then
turned to look for Rupay, finnaly she sees her over by
Entropy and rushes over. "What happened?" She asks seeing
Entropy hurt very badly she doesn't wait for an answer.
Zelda pulls out a yellow potion made of Ginseng and hands
it to Rupay for Entropy. She sighed, "I'm not sure if
there's much else I can do besides that.." she called to the
rest of the Crystal Fighters. +Maybe..+ she thought
to herself and tried to remember the words of her Greater
Heal spell since she didn't have any kind of other medical
supplies with her. "In vas mani.." she whispered, "Goddess
lend me your strength to heal him.." Zelda closed her eyes
and lifted her arms toward the ceiling. She seemed almost
to glow with a soft blue light, then she brought her arms
down partway, palms up and pointing at Entropy. The strange
blue glow shifted and sparkled around him for a few moments.
As it cleared, Zelda looked hopefully at Entropy.
"Well, they were useless." evil UA says. "Hmmm, looks as if we
may have to abandon plan PSIONIC ARMAGEDDON for now, but,
not without doing this first." He 'ports himself and Lady
Darkness out of there. Suddenly, the machinery and supports
begin exploding as Krakken enters the room. Turns out he had been following
Entropy's blood.
"CRYSTAL FIGHTERS HUDDLE!" Kyle shouts. They do and he
erects a psionic shield. The lair colapses around them.
Minutes later, the psi-bubble flies out of the mess and
lands a good distance away. The shield goes down and Kyle
walks towards where they were. The CFs give each other a
nod.
"Well, any fight ya c'n walk 'way from--" Suddenly, T.I.M.
slaps the wristband on Kyle. "What the?"
"You are now our prisoner. Come peacefully or else--" Kyle
gives T.I.M. what should have been a devastating telekinetic
burst. Instead, all it does is send T.I.M. back, knocking
the "wind" out of him.
"What th'--?" He tries again. Nothing. Ganthet grabs him
and holds his sword to his neck.
"Now, there's a certain Avenger we need to discuss." Nity
says. Kyle sighs.
TWO HOURS LATER
The CFs gather up the last of the crystal fragments and
bring them to Kyle in front of the castle.
"Bring him out." Nity says.
"Sure, but how did ya find out that I could?" Kyle asks,
slightly amused.
"Zelda scanned your mind after we turned your powers off.
Now, bring him back."
"Alright, alright. But you may feel a psionic backlash.
Just shake it off."
"No tricks, or else I'll have Ganthet here stick you."
"It would be my honor and my pleasure." Ganthet says,
lightly jamming his sword into Kyle's back.
"No tricks."
"T.I.M., take it off." T.I.M. removes the band and Kyle's
eyes begin to glow. He directs his energies on the crystal
fragments, and sticks them back together. the crystal is
once again a whole. Then, he sends his energies through it.
The CFs get a slight tingle in their heads, but shake it
off. Kyle's energies come out the other side of the crystal
while he blasts and a form begins to take shape. Then, a
hunched over UA appears. Kyle stops blasting and the
darkness of dusk once again falls on them. UA shakes his
head and coughs.
"Whaoh, what a rush." UA says. "Thanks, guys." UA stands
up. He then grabs Kyle's collar. "Now, I have a bone to
pick with you."
"Hold it, UA." Nity says, separating them. "I'm afraid we
have some bad news."
"What? Somebody dead? Whatever work we did on the tower
blow up? What?!"
"You--you're off the team." UA's world completely shatters.
{FLASHBACK SEQUENCE}
{"You're off the team. I'm sorry." Christian had said to
him.
"W-what?"}
"I'm afraid we've found a better leader in Kyle."
{"I'm afraid we've found a better leader in Derek."}
"B-but--"
"And I'm afraid there's too much--history between you two to
let you stay and preform effectively."
{"And I'm afraid you may compete with him for your old
position and may make you careless."}
"Y-you all feel this way?" They all reluctantly nod.
{They all reluctantly nod.}
"Yeah, so hit th' bricks, buddy." Kyle says, pushing him
back. UA kicks his crystal on the ground over to them.
"You'll need this to power every machine I'm leaving you."
{"You'll need this, then." He tosses them his gun and
belt.}
"All my plans are around. You're welcome to them." He
opens a teleportal and it goes from black on red to red on
black. "Good-bye." He jumps in. The CFs all walk inside
the castle. Kyle lingers for a bit. He smiles evily when
the portal shuts.
"I win."
--THE END
NEXT:Can it be? Kyle is in charge? UA is gone? Find out in the Crystal Fighter's
next adventure "Homecomings" and in the CF: Special #1 starring UA and Entropy.
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