Dragon vs Demon (PART 2)

Without hesitating Drew made a fist with his right arm and drives It into Rame's stomach with such force he went flying into the sky. As Drew readied his sword he spoke "He'll be down In 5 minutes. I'll ask him once more. Until then let's fight." Zack and Drice both look at each other and nod. Zack draws his shin-gunto, along with Drice slamming his 2 hands together and creating a greatsword equally as big as Drew's. As the smell of chocolate fills the air, the sounds of distress and sadness can vaguely be heard while the breeze carries a slight chill. Zack quickly speaks "Form 6!" Drice instantly rushes Drew while saying "Dragon Skill: Dragon Claw!" His left hand becomes that of a Dragon. While Drew's purple aura comes back, this time It's significantly stronger. He matches Drice's skill with his own "Dragon Skill: Dragon Claw!" As they collide, they enter a power struggle. But before anything more can happen Zack appears to the right of Drew and says "Sword Skill: Slice." He takes his shin-gunto and makes It parallel with the ground and swings at Drew's abdomen. Drew flips forward dodging Zack's slice while gripping Drice's hand and slamming him into the ground. On impact, Drice let go of Drew's hand, and Drew took this time to attack Zack. Before their swords meet they both exclaim at the same time "Sword Skill: Slash, Consecutive." One strike after another collides with unparalleled strength, speed, precision, and technique. But It was obvious who was better. As Zack and Drew stand clashing one slash at a time, Drice starts to get up shaking his head. He looks over at Zack and Drew clashing. He stands In awe. Each one of their strikes is perfect, true swordsmen. There In a class of their own. Zack notices Drice and says "Form 2!" Drice quickly takes a deep breath and inflates his stomach and releases a mist while saying "Dragon Ice: Mist!" A chilling mist Is released from Drice's mouth all over the battlefield, Zack quickly deflects one of Drew's attacks to knock him off balance and jumps back. But the break was only brief for a moment, Zack instantly followed up with another attack "Sword Skill: Piercing Mist." Zack instantly lunges forward through the mist allowing It to collect into his blade. Drew was caught off guard and barely dodged the lethal blow. As Zack comes to the other side of the mist where Drice Is Standing they both turn and look at Drew. Blood drips from his right side. He goes to touch his wound. Cold to the touch and the healing has been frozen. He finally speaks "A mist so cold It freezes, In combination with Zack's blade. A wound that can't close." Drew takes a wide stance and continues "Good, now I can really test my power. Dragon Skill: Dragon's Roar!" As Drew let his inner Dragon come forth the mist was quickly dispersed. As he turns around Zack talks to Drice "We know we can damage him, just need to find a greater opening." Drice replies "Leave that to Rame. We just need to make that opening." Quimica yells out "READY!" Zack smiles and says "Good! Form 5!" Drice and Zack both rush Drew, this time Drew readies his blade and says "Sword Technique: Tamiya Ryu." Before Zack and Drice could get within range to strike, Drew knocked them back with a simple swing of his blade. But they swiftly recovered and tried again. No matter how much they pushed there was always a 5m space between them. Drice quickly got annoyed and yelled "I'M TIRED OF THIS! DRAGON ICE: FREEZE!" In an instant, the air around Drew started to crackly and pop slowly freezing the moisture around him. His movements slowed and they closed the gap down to 3m. They kept trying to rush him through the Ice forming in the air around him. As they clash blades Quimica stands and pushes his glasses up and says "El Cuarto. Crear." A Materia room formed around Drew, Drice and Zack. Drew quickly changed his form of attack, he let the 3m space drop to 2m and said "Sword Technique: Half Sword!" He grips the sword with his right while his left grips the center of his blade. As he swings the power behind each strike has been significantly increased along with speed. All Zack and Drice can do Is dodge and block. As they struggle to get In the ice surrounding them thickens to the point that It becomes a forest of ice stalagmites. Drice yells out "IT'S DONE!" Zack stops attacking while Drice continues the barrage. Zack steps out of the Materia room and approaches Quimica and stands by his side watching Drice and Drew clash. As Quimica gets ready, Rame continues to fall from the sky bored as hell. He starts to lie down on his back while falling and says "Maaaaaan, I just wanted to go home." He goes to flip around to look down at the ground and sees the ice. He smiles and sits up while crossing his legs and says "I guess I'll work a lil after the clock, but you owe me one Zack." He closes his eyes and starts to think. In his mind he pictures the battle happening below him and starts to think of the possible situations It took for the ice to form and what would come after "Since the ice is there they must have used form 5. That means Quimica's room Is up." As Rame continues to think, Drice and Drew continue their never-ending clash. Zack speaks up to Quimica "When Drice goes for his final attack, start." Quimica pushes up his glasses and nods. Drew starts to get impatient with this pointless stalemate and yells at Drice "COME ON! YOU'RE A DRAGON, RIGHT? DON'T LOSE TO A MERE HUMAN!" He falls for the cheap taunt and yells back a reply "I WON'T! SWORD SKILL: SPIN!" He goes for one last strike before pivoting off his right foot and spinning to the right bringing his sword back around. In doing so he cut the ice stalagmites In half. Drew was able to block but in that instant, Quimica grabbed his giant cell scraper and pointed It at the room, and said "Chemical Materia: NaK." Little by little small silver spheres with a yellow tint begin to form inside the Materia room. As more and more show up Drew takes notice, at that point, Drice readies another spin while saying "Dravity can survive this. Let's see If you can. Sword Skill plus Dragon Ice: Spinning Ice Explosion!" Drice spins with all his might and speed. The shattered ice around him began to spin around the room knocking into silver-yellow spheres and Drew. Drew just laughs while dodging and deflecting the flying ice. But before he could say anything one of the chunks of ice hit a sphere slightly different. At that moment a chain reaction of explosions goes off for a minute straight. One after another, almost infinite explosions. As the explosions slowly stop Quimica snickered while saying "Beautifully executed. I give It a grade of… A- could have had more style!" Drice eventually walks out of the smoke and room. But this time his appearance was different, he grew Dragon wings. Zack starts to talk to Drice "You okay?" Drice scoffs at his remark but answers "Of course. An explosion like that has no effect on my skin. Like I said Dravity would have lived that, but a mere human… Even If he had a piece of Dravity's power It wouldn't be enough to tank that." Quimica continues after Drice and says "Well then. Can I close the room? I'm starting to get a lil fatigued." Zack nods, and Quimica closes the room. They all turn to look at the smoke slowly clearing. As It does, Drew still stands but is covered In ice with a hint of yellow. He doesn't move, not a single muscle. Drice laughs obnoxiously loud while saying "See! Weak human. Dravity you should be ashamed of thinking this human could take us. You should take over his body and join us!" Drew's sword glows a deep purple and speaks "HAHA! As If! Drew!" The air around him started to shift. The purple aura started to seep out of his blade and swirl and spiral around. Before Drew could even take a step, Zack made a call "FORM 3!" Drice and Zack immediately rush Drew. With Zack's sword aiming for Drew's waist and Drice aiming for his neck, mere meters away Zack yells out to Quimica "NOW!" Quimica frantically sets another room "El Cuarto, Crear!" But this time the room was significantly smaller but just enough to engulf the 3. As Drice and Zack come into contact with Drew's body, Quimica says "Chemical Materia: Resiniferatoxin!" A bright light flashes and disappears. And then the room starts to fill with a burning liquid, to the point It slowly eats away the ground. Zack and Drice quickly escape but not without damage. Zack's left leg was burning to the bone. Drice simply flings the liquid off his wings, while Quimica swiftly runs toward Zack. He takes his giant cell scraper and touches Zack's leg and says "Raspado Célula Habilidad: Cosecha." In an instant, the burning liquid dispersed and the wound started to close. Zack stands and starts to talk "Thanks, Mica." He gives a salute and looks over at Drew. The room slowly fills with steam and smoke along with the smell of burning flesh. Slowly the room closes and the smoke and smell rise through the sky until Rame smelled It and said "What the fuck is that smell?" he starts to gag but It doesn't break his concentration "This smell confirms options 0, 3, 7, and 8. Now, what could possibly happen after…" The liquid eventually falls off Drew's body and burns into the ground. Zack, Drice, and Quimica continue to stare at Drew. Chunks of his flesh missing down to the bone along with his skin being completely gone, somehow still manages to not only stand but speak "You said Dravity could survive, so that means I can survive. We are one! Dragon Skill: Dragon's Malice." Bits and pieces of his flesh started to come back with a new layer of skin. Drew continues to talk "If I didn't have Dravity I would have been cooked. No pun intended. But since I do I was only simmered." As Drew's skin finishes healing he shakes off the residue. As his aura tightens up he takes a deep breath and releases steam from his nose. He starts to walk forward toward Zack, Drice, and Quimica. As he got closer Drice frighteningly said "Maybe he has claimed the prince's power. This could be bad." Quimica takes a few steps back a falls, fear filled his heart. He stutters while trying to say "Z.. Za… Zack I don't really have the stamina to make another room. W… What's the plan?" Zack frantically tries to think but Is slowly consumed with terror as Drew approaches "There's no way he gained this much strength In just a YeaR time." As he continues to think another voice enters his head and starts to talk "Come on Zack. With my power, you'll easily be able to match this decrepit Dragon!" Zack answers the voice "I can't frost. While I'm In the city It puts the others at risk." Frost laughs and says "Not even a lil bit?" Zack shakes his head while Frost goes on "Well just a heads up, your other friend should be close. I'd say maybe a minute… 2 max." Then the voice disappears. Zack looks at Drice. He seems like he can keep fighting for a bit longer. He then turns to look at Quimica. Zack can tell he's filled with fear, and he doesn't have enough Materia to create another room. So he's basically useless. Zack looks back at Drew, they're running out of time. Zack clenches his sword and says "Drice, Quimica!" They both pay attention as Zack continues talking "We have roughly 2 minutes to wait for Rame. Until then we need to create that opening!" Drice smiles and readies his sword while Quimica replies "Master Zack, are you serious? How can you rely on him when doesn't even want to be here let alone fight!" Zack quickly answers "Cause he's our strategist. He might fail on missions, but I've seen It with my own eyes. Him playing video games, Is part of his training." Quimica throws a fit of disbelief at Zack's answer. Drew finally speaks "I'm tired of that whiny bastard. What was his name…. Right, I don't care." In a blink of an eye Drew appeared in front of Quimicas face and smiled while raising his sword up to the sky and saying "Sword Technique: Mugai Ryu, Constant." He brings his sword down upon Quimica and cuts him cleanly In half. As Drew stands he flicks his wrist and the blood flies off his sword. With his back towards Drice and Zack he says "1 down 2 left. Come with everything you got!" Zack looks at Drice and says "Form 15." Drice speaks up In an Instant "We've only practiced that In the classroom. And It relies on Rame!" Zack replies "We just have to believe. Rame Is strong trust me." Drice bites his lip but readies his blade while saying "Fine. Your lucky I want to destroy this human with all my might!" Drew turns around and points his blade at Drice and says "Your swordplay Is ass, you got no technique. All you do Is flail that thing around and hope you hit something. Let me show you what a sword can really do." Drice angrily smiles and responds "Fine then. Don't ask for pity before I kill you." Drew returns the smile and brings his sword to his shoulder to rest and rushes Zack.

At that moment Drew comes into striking distance and brings his sword off his shoulder and slams It into Zack. But he quickly blocked and Drice followed up with a quick lunge toward Drew's right side. As Drew goes to defend himself from the attack Zack doesn't let up and squats condensing a large amount of Materia In his legs and says "Sword Skill: Dragon Spin!" He quickly stands releasing all the power with his legs to do a grounded rising sword strike. Just like when Drew fought Dom. Drew smiled and blocked Drice's sword and grabbed Zack's sword and stopping It In It's place. As Drew's left hand slowly turned into a Dragon's he spoke "Dragon Skill: Dragon Claw." He then picked Zack up by his sword and slammed him into Drice and quickly pivoted off his left foot and kicked them. But Drice was ready and yelled out "Dragon Ice: Freeze!" And created a wall of Ice before the kick made an impact. As Zack recovers Drice rushes back In. One swing at a time, he and Drew clash. The sheer power behind each strike Is ridiculous. As they go back and forth, Zack starts to get angry "For the longest, I was the strongest between the both of us. But now you showed me I only scratched the surface." As Zack stands his hair starts to flow freely throughout the air, slowly turning silver. He took a deep breath and said "Materia: Kyoka Shushu." In an instant, an enormous amount of Matiera started to collect around Zack to the point even Dravity started to speak "Pay attention to Zack! They're planning something!" Drew quickly counters Drice's attack and says "Let me show you a real spin!" As Drice tries to recover Drew dug his left foot into the ground and spun with such force that the charge up knocked Drice even more off balance. Scared for his life Drice yells out "DRAGON SKILL: DRAGON'S FORTIFICATION!" For a brief second, there was not a sound made until Drew's sword made contact with Drice's body. The sheer force destroyed the already destroyed city even more and sent Drice flying toward the east wall. At that point Drew rushed Zack with countless swings with the power to split an ocean. But Zack dodges with no effort, but he doesn't retaliate only dodges. As Drew continues his onslaught Zack thinks to himself "I need more time to collect, It's not enough to stop him. Come on Drice get up!" Drew's mind Is In a state of frenzy, only thinking about the fight at hand. Just a few kilometers above them Rame continues to think "Well there goes options 3 and 8. That leaves 0 and now 2 new options 1 and 9. Each one I have to commit to. But which one?" As Rame tries to narrow done the outcome of the fight, a loud roar can be heard from the east wall. It's Drice! Each breath he takes Is heavy from exhaustion. He recalls back to when the attack hit him "If It wasn't for the fortification I would have died. I'm lucky to have only lost a wing and a few broken bones. I have enough for one more attack. Seems like Zack's almost ready too. Now, Rame. Please." Zack yells out to Drice "I need time, quick form 2!" Drew stops his barrage of attacks on Zack and turns his attention to Drice as he prepares an attack. Drice "Dragon Ice: Mist." He quickly inhales and exhales cold mist, covering the destroyed city. Drew laughs and says "Not this again! Once I've seen It. I know how to beat It!" Drew quickly prepares another spin but this time instead of Zack attacking Drice does. He swiftly charges at Drew through the mist while saying "Dragon Ice: Freeze!" The icy mist that once embraced Drew instantly froze him In place. Zack yells out to Drice "NOW!" As Drew struggles to break the Ice, Drice gathers his remaining Materia and with a cold, and commanding voice says "Dragon Ice: Blade of Endless Winters!" He dropped his sword and as It pierced the ground all the moisture In the air surrounding C.U.G vanished. With each passing second, the blade grew bigger and bigger until It towered over not just them but everything. Drice falls to his knees, barely able to speak "Don't fail me again Rame!" Drew still struggling to break the ice screams In anger "WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT KIND OF ICE IS THIS!" His sword glows purple as he bashes It against the ice, and Dravity speaks "Dragon ice, stronger than even your best human ice user, by a lot. Looks like you need to dig deep, otherwise, our life ends here." Drew starts to swing faster and faster to break the Ice. While he continues doing that Zack finally finishes collecting his Materia and says "Now where are you Rame?" With the lack of moisture, the clouds disperse and Rame appears just a few kilometers away from the giant sword. As he draws closer and closer to It he talks aloud "Man, I'm glad I went with option 9. The other 2 would have gotten me killed. Well then, time to clock out." As he falls Drice looks up at the sky and sees him falling toward the sword. He puts his head down and the only thing he can think to do Is laugh. Zack hears Drice's laughter and looks up. He looks back down at Drice, and then Quimica and says "If this doesn't work, well we're dead." Zack takes his sword and drives the hilt into his shoulder. He takes a good standing position and dumps all his Materia Into his blade. As he does that Rame finally makes It to the sword. When he grabs It, the sheer coldness of the sword burned his hand with an icy sting. He flips forward In the air and lands on his feet bringing the massive blade to a sheathed position while saying "React to this option, Sword Master. Sword Technique: Iaido." With everything he's got, Rame rushes Drew trapped In the ice. Drew stops trying to break free and prepares to block. Rame just an arm's length away jumps at the last second while saying "Un-reactable overhead." As Drew brought his sword up the force of the clash broke the ice and created a blinding blue light. As Rame and Drew struggle to overthrow the other. Drice couldn't believe his eyes, Rame actually doing something. He goes to stand while saying "I can't let him use my move better than me. Dragon Ice: Blade of Endless Winters!" With the lack of moisture, the blade doesn't grow to nearly the size of the last one. But It still towers over most buildings. Panic starts to set In Drew's heart, Dravity senses It and starts to talk "DREW! Get yourself together!" Drew yells In frustration "I'm trying! I can't push him back!" Dravity laughs while Drew struggles. Zack takes one last look at his brother and says "Sorry for doing this again. Materia Skill: Sniper Shot." From the tip of his shin-gunto fired a giant Materia sniper bullet, traveling through the air at near supersonic speed and aimed at Drew's heart. Along with Drice coming from the right with another massive blade. All while Rame pressuring him from above. At that moment time for Drew slowed, his entire life flashed before him once again. But this time It stopped on Lily. Events that never happen play. Traveling Kansai alongside her and Jr. Eating food from around the world. Exploring the sea. Living their life In peace until death. All of these false realities play In Drew's head. He could help but smile. His head dropped and he started to talk to Dravity "You said dig deep. Well then, let's see how deep I can go!" Dravity started to yell In excitement while Drew allowed Dravity to freely flow throughout his body. From the soles of his feet all the way to his mind. He became Dravity.

SCREEN SHATTER

Goa starts to stand and makes her way over to me while saying "Well then Drew, good luck and gods speed. You'll need It!" Then she thrusts her fist into my chest. I could feel her energy, she truly wants me to succeed. I smile and… Wait I remember this, I quickly look at every one. They return the look but confused, Goa speaks up "O, I see now. You already went." I scratch my head In utter confusion. Jr and Rima just go back to eating akebia's, while Lily stood up and walked over to me. She spoke, "He did. And he performed exceptionally!" As she said that she extended her hand and opened It. Even though It makes zero sense how I got back here without my injuries. I don't question It. I simply extend my arm and shake her hand, In doing so Lily says "Welcome to the Holy Dark!" And gives me a warm smile.

BACK IN C.U.G, NORTHEAST CITY

As the city continues to carry on as If nothing happened. As If the whole city was leveled along with the people living In It. Ay wakes up from a horrifying dream. He quickly grabs his chest and under his breath says "I died, why am I here." Vivid pictures fill his mind of Drew beating the absolute shit out of him. He removes his blanket and tries to stand but falls to the ground. He starts to breathe heavily, his heart beating faster and faster. More and more pictures fill his mind, the destruction of the city, along with the absurd amount of dead bodies. Ay quickly rushes to the window In his room. He moves the curtain aside and looks down onto the city. It's all there. The buildings, people, noises, It's all there. Ay rushes to get dressed to head outside. Once outside he runs over to Northeast city. And It's still intact, It's like nothing happened. As he walks around like a madman someone taps his shoulder, and when Ay turns around It's Zack. Ay quickly falls In place and gives a quick salute. Zack returns the favor and says "Good morning. Sleep well?" Ay responds "Good morning TC! And to be honest, no. I dreamed about the city being attacked and destroyed by a fellow comrade." Rame creates an X with his arms and says "WRONG! It wasn't a dream." Zack continues after him "He's right It wasn't a dream. And It wasn't just a random comrade. It was Drew." Ay not even shocked replies "Yeah… I know." A brief silence falls between the 3 of them. The city continues to bustle, the street filled with life. But It was soon interrupted by Rame saying "Standing here Isn't going to get us anywhere. We should go back to the house and wait for Drice and Quimica." Zack nods and tells Ay to follow.