Chapter 99: Dark Star

Chapter 99: Dark Star

Daykona’s mutations continue as the battle against Daykona enters its final phase.

Daykona begins walking toward Kurt, Emily, and Joe.

“Your punishment for siding with divine beings is death!” Daykona declares.

Kurt, Emily, and Joe clench their teeth, even as their nerves tremble.

“Get ready everyone!” Kurt commands.

“We’re not just going to stand here and let you kill us!” Joe yells.

Daykona readies a laser beam from her eye tentacle. Before she can fire it, someone launches from behind the three heroes and pounds Daykona in the face with incredible force, knocking her back.

The three heroes all open their eyes wide.

“It’s you…! You’re awake!” Emily mutters.

Standing in front of them is Zeth. His dark-tinted eyes resonate with the fury and his body is enshrouded with a dark aura.

Getting a better look at him, the three heroes stare in shock.

“Zeth… What is this…?” Kurt asks, his voice trailing off with uncertainty.

Zeth infused with Sasha’s dark power – Dark Star

“My hatred for you now goes beyond the stars, Daykona!” Zeth yells, not answering Kurt’s question. “I am passing judgment on you, and the verdict is that you will die!”

Daykona rubs her head as she stands up. “You should be near death!!!”

Zeth charges toward Daykona, dodging her laser beam in the process. He then engages in an exchange of punches with her.

“I don’t know how you got a second wind, but I’m going to finish the job this time!!” Daykona yells as she throws her punches.

Daykona interrupts their back-and-forth blows by trying to clamp down on Zeth with her crab claw, but he dodges. He then uses a Dark Star Blast on her eye tentacle, blowing it off.

Zeth reaches his hand into the wound, ripping out a chunk of organic tissue, which prevents her from mutating there again.

“What!!?” Daykona shouts, shocked by Zeth’s bold move.

“Now that arm is permanently gone,” Zeth replies with a smirk.

Zeth jumps, but Daykona clamps onto his leg to halt his upward movement. She slams him down into the ground, following that up by continuously stomping on him.

“You’re like a cockroach that just won’t die!” Daykona growls.

Zeth forms two Dark Star Shards, one in each hand. He quickly plants them onto Daykona’s legs, halting her stomps as she winces in pain. He then kicks her and jumps up to get off the ground. However, Daykona strikes with an uppercut, sending him into the ceiling. The momentum is so great that his body is blown all the way up to the room the fight started in before “the plan” went into effect. Daykona quickly jumps from floor to floor to get to him.

Zeth wipes the blood from his face. He looks over at Sasha, who is still sitting against a wall.

“Don’t tell me that she is still too powerful for you to defeat?” Sasha says with great concern.

“No, but I might need to get more reckless to deliver a finishing blow,” Zeth replies, giving her an assuring smile.

Daykona jumps out of the hole in the floor. She glares at Sasha. “So Sasha, you gave him your energy. Too bad it won’t be enough.”

“You’re wrong!” Zeth yells. “Raging Dark Star Mode!”

His Raging Star flares with dark power, tinting his body black instead of red.

Pointing at Daykona, Zeth narrows his eyes with anger. “This is it, you monster! The last fight!”

Zeth charges at Daykona with full determination.

“Bring it, you sack of trash!!” Daykona screams, readying her fists.

Zeth leaps forward, winding his fist back, eyes narrowed and teeth clenched, as he prepares for a powerful punch. Once he gets close, they both drive their fists forward, smashing each other in the face. Saliva and blood splash out from their mouths.

Daykona recovers first, using her other fists to land follow-up punches.

“You are still no match for me!!” she shouts with glee.

Zeth shrugs the punches off, and then quickly moves forward, punching Daykona’s gut rapidly. She coughs up blood as her eyes bulge out even more with each hit.

Zeth then jumps and kicks Daykona in the face, but she counters by clamping onto his body with the claw. She starts rapidly punching him with her four arms.

“Your damn crab claw is annoying!” Zeth shouts.

Zeth forms and releases a Dark Star Blast at near point-blank range to blow off the claw, freeing himself. “That won’t be a problem anymore!”

“I don’t need the claw to take you down!!” Daykona yells as she begins multiplying the Dark Star Shards pierced into her legs.

Zeth begins running around the room as Daykona tosses the Dark Star Shards, one after another.

Zeth underestimates how fast she can throw them. The shards fly like speeding bullets, blowing into his arms and legs until he is pushed back and pinned against a wall. Blood flows out from the points the shards impacted.

“Oh crap!” Zeth mutters.

Daykona starts charging toward Zeth at a high speed, screaming, “Yes!!! I will punch your heart out!!!”

As Daykona reaches Zeth, there is a split-second flash. The next thing Daykona notices is that Zeth is not there and two of her arms have been cut off. She only has her original two arms remaining.

“Huh!? What happened!!?”

“It’s simple. I used my raging aura to launch the shards at your arms,” Zeth says with confidence.

She looks behind her to see Zeth holding the amputated arms.

Zeth smirks. “Let’s finish this, arcade style!”

“Don’t act like you are stronger than me!!!” Daykona screams. “I will squash you like a bug!!!”

They charge at each other and begin punching each other repeatedly.

Kurt, Joe, Emily, and Sandy arrive, jumping out of the hole in the floor, to see the fight.

“Whoa… Zeth is in a winning position!” Joe notes.

“Zeth, you got this!!” Kurt calls out.

“Destroy her, Zeth!!” Emily shouts.

“If you don’t, we’re all in big trouble!” Sandy adds.

Their fight looks like a street fight as they do nothing but punch each other back and forth, fueled by their hatred for the other. Daykona lands a powerful blow to Zeth’s face, but he follows with a gut punch and then an uppercut, knocking her back some.

Tears flow down Zeth’s face as he fights. The other heroes notice the tears, each staring in awe as they witness the emotional impact the fight has on him.

“Zeth…” Sasha says in a calm yet sad way.

“For as much physical pain that we have all taken, Zeth has taken the most emotional pain…” Kurt says. “The way she insulted and said terrible things to everything he finds important. Being so ungrateful for all the good things Harmona has done.”

Zeth and Daykona exchange punches that are both blocked.

“Horrible people like you shouldn’t be allowed to live!!” Zeth screams.

“Look in the mirror!!” Daykona screams back. “You divine son of a bitch!!!”

Even more tears flow down from Zeth’s eyes as his anger rises.

He elbows Daykona in the gut, causing her to cough up blood. In retaliation, she throws a punch at Zeth’s face, but he stops the punch by catching it with his hand.

“Say that again!!!” Zeth screams.

“Divine son of a bitch!!!”

Daykona gets ready to throw more punches, but at a high speed, Zeth releases a punch into Daykona’s gut so strong, it almost tears through her body.

Zeth backs away a bit as Daykona places her hands on her gut as she starts to throw up a lot of blood. His glare cold-blooded, ready to finish her.

“It’s going to hurt a lot more!!!!”

Zeth strikes with another uppercut to her chin. He then jumps in the air above her and slams his fists into the top of her head, knocking her down onto the floor. Lying on her back, she looks up in fear as Zeth prepares his finishing blow.

“This will finish it!!!” Zeth screams.

Zeth comes falling back down headfirst and charges magic energy in his fist.

“Dark Super Nova Punch!!!!!”

Zeth slams his fist into Daykona’s gut, releasing an explosion full of dark rays.

“Aaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!” Daykona screams as her body blows into pieces.

At last, the battle is over. The other four heroes and Sandy all smile while looking at Zeth.

Zeth starts to stand back up, breathing heavily as he looks down at the floor where he finished her off.

***

In Heaven, Harmona smiles down upon Zeth.

***

Zeth looks upward at the ceiling, and then raises his arms in the air, screaming in victory.

“Yeeeaaaahhhhh!!!!!”

After a long battle, the heroes have prevailed and Zeth has killed Daykona while his mother, Harmona, watches proudly. Now, all that’s left is to save Clora.

Chapter 99 END

To be Continued in Chapter 100: Saving Clora