New Beginning 22: Once Upon a New Beginning...

[Marvelous Miscreant]

The Narrator wrote

Ahhhh naw. They can work against me sometimes buffing my opponent ....

"I see so they ca-"

My sentence is cut short as I spin around and fire a barrage my special quartz at The Narrator. Each shard gleams with malicious light. Immediately I roll to the side and dive head first into the earth, plunging into it as if it were water.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

"Well, it's quite simple, really." Brutus shrugs, "Seeing as how most people stop after inventing techniques with just hands and feet. Though, the Penultimate learned rather early from his rival--the B***h-- hands and feet are child's play. Even if you're not working with superpowers. Ever hear of the Drunken Gimp technique? No hands or feet are allowed."

[Celadon's Penultimate]

"Hehe..." The Penultimate agrees, snickering, "Always."

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

"The Drunken Gimp?" Suzu inquires. "Nope, never heard of it. All of the styles practiced in Môsôoriku are refined and highly practiced styles."

[Celadon's Penultimate]

"Ah, yes, refinement is all well and good, but tell me." Brutus replies, "How many different ways do you know to kill a man with just your elbow?"

[Tsubasa & Wen Tien]

"Only one. Jabbing him in the nose, so that the bone shards go into his or her brain."

[Zaleramancer]

One of the shadows nearby expands into a vast figure, before collapsing and folding in on itself to form something in the region of three-dimensions.

A dark haired girl in military fatigue pants and a chain-mail shirt walks up, scythe balanced on her shoulders.

"Ready to start a brawl?"

[Zaleramancer]

My Shadow snickers.

"I'm sure they're very.. pretty."

[Celadon's Penultimate]

"Well, maybe you're up for it." Brutus huffs melodramatically, "But us humans? We need what some call 'rest'."

[Zaleramancer]

"Blah, Blah, Blah. Words. ZALE! FIX THIS!"

The voice starts up again.

"Wh-"

"Or I'll throw Von Inge into the sun."

"You.. you would totally do that."

A shiny pill appears, floating before Brutus.

"This will provide you with the equivalent of a day of rest. Please for the love of any twelve gods you care to name, take it."

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Brutus looks up, in mock contemplation, "Hm...for the love of the Twelve Greek Olympians...okay, deal."

The butler snatches the pill out of its levitation, and downs it. He snaps his finger at the Penultimate, who promptly glares daggers at him. Remembering his place, Brutus offers a nervous smile and asks for some water.

"Okay, I'm good." he sighs, downing the glass; looking around, he adds, "I assume your master will set aside more room for us to dance?"

[Zaleramancer]

The Shadow shrugged and glanced around.

A door appeared in a huffy fashion.

An arena appeared inside it.

"Come on you two!"

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Brutus kicks off of the bleachers, full power, and sticks the landing perfectly. Dusting himself off, he walks toward the arena to meet Shadow.

[Philote]

Lady Von Inge was proving to be more trouble than I expected. My attempt to overwhelm her may have only served to feed her more power. There were only two possibilities. That she was absorbing the matter, or that she was transporting it out into other space. Judging by her increase in size, it was a safe bet that she had absorbed it, along with the PseudoCore.

The PseudoCore of Zale's Arena.

The matter still under the control of the PseudoCore moves throughout the space it had entered like an infection, seeking to conform the space to the same data as the coliseum.

Back in the arena, I have to deal with the meteor that was swung back at me. Energy from more Core expands, forming a Soul Sphere, covered in the ten Elemental Gates of my dimension, around me. The Gate of Earth opens and a stream of elemental energy rushes out. The beam impacts with the meteor, slowing it down before eventually breaking it apart.

[The Junkyard Cat]

"Alright....but that might be a bit harder to keep a secret....She is...well mentally connected to me." Cabanilla says as not sure if he was still good to enter the bug's world. "So.....Just tell me when to enter......"

[Ericus Europaeus (Bug)]

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[The Narrator]

As I sit around waiting for marv to respond I realize, my email never went thru, ha, great to be aware....

His awesome face blast, while amazing, temporarily blinded me, and gave me a cool battle scar.  I bet I'll have street cred now!

Never the last, I laugh at the pain, and begin to search the area for Marv.  He couldn't have possibly gotten too far.....

[The Junkyard Cat]

Cabanilla's projection morphs into a portal walking through with a silver haired girl holding his hand. "So what are you doing?"

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I sit beneath the surface of the earth, biding my time to strike. My arms stretched out before me. With a whisper of old words a thin vein of crystal bloomed from each of my finger tips, coiling outwards through the earth. Each tiny tendril branched out a hundred times and each branch fractured into a hundred more. They slid and trickled through the soft earth, forming a massive underground web of crystalline veins.

"Lets see him deal with this..." I whisper to myself. Now, all I had to do was wait.

[The Narrator]

"Ugh, where is he?

I know, I'll just do a musical number, that should lure him out."

*a spotlight appears*

Narrator's outfit changes.....

"The hills are a live in the sound of music...."