I will admit, there is a time and place where even I can have the best of ideas.
This time was not now.
"Hahaha!" Rabbit Guildy laughed as the ball flew back into her hands before she dropped it onto her foot again. I hastily ducked before having to throw my body to the side to avoid it bouncing off the concrete and back into my head.
You know, before today I wouldn't have believed that bowling balls can bounce. Now though? Maybe I should petition for Twirl to revise physics textbooks everywhere.
Oh wait, it was generally accepted practice to slap a post-it note with the words "Magic does not count" on those things every year-
"PAY ATTENTION JACKASS!"
"I AM!" I screamed as I flipped backwards to avoid another shot, landing on one hand before instinctually kicking the ball and-
"Ow!"
I got back on well, one of my feet as I held the other much sorer one in my hand. In comparison to Rabbit Guildy's sharp, crisp kicks, when my foot hit the ball it proceeded to just flop right onto the ground like a limp noodle. Also my foot stung like hell. "How the hell do you kick that thing?! Gah!"
"You know how in volleyball you shouldn't use your wrists? Same thing but with your ankle instead." The pink bunny paused, "...Fuck! You messed up my ability!"
"But at what costs?" I groaned, tentatively putting my foot down before wincing. "Agh, that's gonna sting until tomorrow."
"Oh walk off it you pansy, you're a Magical Girl."
"Painful things still hurt!"
"So?!" Rabbit clenched her… paw thing before looking at me in anger. "The training I had to go through was much harsher! I've become so strong I could kick down an iron door! I'm nothing like that wimp chameleon who couldn't even bench press five pounds! That kind of pain is nothing!"
You know… "Er, what about Lizard?"
"Huh?" She looked at me strangely, though I'm not sure how she pulled it off. "Who the hell is Lizard?"
"You know, uh, Lizard Guildy! He was about the same strength as Chameleo!"
There was an awkward moment of silence before she looked away, "Did we have a Lizard Guildy? Wait he means that guy? I thought he was like, uh, Gecko Guildy or something. What do you mean I should remember my comrades better?!"
"Hey!" I shouted, "Even if he was a Guildy who kidnapped a little girl-"
"HE DID
WHAT?!" Rabbit exclaimed, "Holy shit, did you guys hear that?"
Right that's it. "Okay who are you talking to?"
"Didn't I say it was none of your business?!"
"Well it would be if you didn't
keep interrupting the battle in order to talk to them!"
"Grrr…" She paused before sighing, "Fine. I've got the commander and that creep Grasper on the line. You happy now?"
"...Te-"
"I'm not telling them you said hi. They're recording this fight anyways."
What?! Where?!
I shook my head around to look for a camera only to find a still barren parking lot. "How?"
"Don't ask me I don't want to know. Now, let's continue this fight!" She stared at me, in a battle ready position before proceeding to do nothing. "Hey, pass the ball here."
"No."
"You know I can't continue fighting if you don't pass me that ball."
Hm…
If I passed the ball to her it'd make the fight fair, but…
An idea came to mind.
It was completely horrible but you know what? I'm out of options.
"Don't worry." I gave her my best grin as I held the Blazer Blade up, "I'll bring the fight to you!
Break Release!"
With a shout I began to charge at her, power coursing through me as the Blazer Blade opened.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Rabbit Guildy shouted, "You already tried that and it did nothing, dumbass!"
"That's where you're wrong! It
did do something!" A familiar rush of colorful flames engulfed my blade. "
GRAND BLAZER!"
With a boost from the jets on the sides of my waist I came to a halt right in front of Rabbit Guildy and waved the Blazer Blade right in front of her face. A loud shriek echoed across the rooftop as the fires on the Blade went out. Quickly, I spun the sword around before jamming it into one of her legs.
Blazer Blade: 160 Base Damage, +14 Dice, +150 Critical Strike! = 324 Total Damage
Rabbit Guildy: 160 Base Resilience, +40 Dice, -64 Blinded = 136 Total Reduction
188 End Damage
Rabbit Guildy: 414 - 188 = 226 Remaining Health
"OH COME ON!" She exclaimed as the blow forced her to kneel down and… finally have her head reach my own height. That's embarrassing. "My knees?! Really?! That's like if I decided to kick you in the balls!"
I winced, "I'm pretty sure that'd hurt a lot more. Like, a lot. Also please don't."
"Well it's just as important to me!" She groaned in pain as I dislodged the sword from her knee. "Ugh, fuck everything…"
I sighed, "To think I would resort to using Grand Blazer as a tool to blind someone. I feel
dirty."
"I would've preferred it if you didn't."
"Sorry."
"Don't apologize to me. It worked out for you anyways so what's the problem?"
"Well," I waved my hands, not that she could see it. "I mean like, it's the
finishing blow. I get that it's practical but like,
it's the finishing blow."
"...I have no idea what that's supposed to mean." She rubbed a paw on her face, "Ugh, finally my vision is coming back! Not that I can fight as well since you
busted my fucking leg!"
"Is this going to be like the ear again?"
"THAT HURT LIKE HELL YOU BASTARD! OF COURSE I'M GOING TO BE FUCKING PISSED!" She slammed a fists against the pavement. "Dammit it all! Why am I on the ground but you're relatively fine?!"
Yeah…
I looked at Rabbit Guildy. She was far from top fighting condition. Her ear was broken, her leg had fractures from where I stabbed my sword into it, and I could see her wince with every moment. Honestly at this point it would be easy to take her out, just a few swings of my sword and boom, she was dead.
But… A part of me- No.
All of me couldn't accept that kind of answer. There's just no way, no way I'd ever let it end like that!
So I did what could be considered the dumbest thing in my entire life.
"Hit me." I declared, staring the Rabbit dead on.
"I'm sorry what." She replied.
"Go on, hit me!" I spread my arms wide, "You keep going on about how nothing goes your way! Your plan failed, your body is broken and battered, and your losing a fight you don't want to be in in the first place! So that's why I'm going to give you this chance! Don't just complain about how things suck, fight it and make the situation better for yourself!"
"...You're an idiot," Rabbit Guildy laughed after a moment of silence, "Hahaha! Oh my god, you're an actual idiot!"
"Idiot I may be… but my heart is telling you to give you this chance!" I pointed at her with my freehand, "Not doing anything when life gives you crap… as if I would let you sit there and do such a thing when you have that fighting spirit! If you do, if you're just a hypocrite who never actually does anything about things, well.
If you continue down this path, then your existence ends here!"
She paused before clenching her fist, "A hypocrite? Well, you
did ask for it. Take this you son of a bitch!"
With a roar that was a mix of anger and pain she launched herself up before throwing a punch to where I was standing.
I quickly dodged it as she ended up stumbling forward. "Huh?!"
"Well, like, I mean, I told you to come at me and stuff but I'm not just going to sit there and take it." I clenched my own fist before looking at her dead in the eye. "Come on! Show me what you got!"
"Are… you taunting me?" Rabbit Guildy growled, "You're clearly much better off than me! How is this fair!?"
"Don't just make excuses!" But since she did mention it… I de-summoned the Blazer Blade and took up my own fighting stance. It was the one I used in most of my spars with Lan and about the only thing I really solidly walked away with in two years. "I'll use my own fists as well!"
"This is stupid. You are so so stupid," the rabbit grumbled, "But damn it all if I'm not willing to give it a try! Fine! Tail Red, let's dance!"
"Fine by me!"
Tail Red: 160 Base Damage, +10 Dice, -120 Unarmed = 41 Total Damage
Rabbit Guildy: 160 Base Reduction, +32 Dice, -40 Busted Knee, -80 No Hand-eye Coordination = 72 Total Reduction
0 End Damage
Rabbit Guildy: 90 Base Damage, +10 Dice, -21 Busted Knee, -45 No Hand-eye Coordination = 34 Total Damage
Tail Red: 105 Base Resilience, +1 Dice = 106 Total Reduction
0 End Damage
This goes on for a bit.
And then we punched each other.
A lot.
I weaved in and out of each of Rabbit Guildy's punches while I threw in blows of my own. Our fists must've smashed into each other's faces who knows how many times but surprisingly, not a single one of them hurt.
Not that that stopped us. We kept going, pushing our bodies to punch each other. Why? I'm not entirely sure. It was a feeling that's hard to describe, like the blood got to our heads and even though we knew it wouldn't hurt the other, we still kept going.
Eventually though, Rabbit Guildy paused, taking a few steps away from me all while wincing in pain before taking in a deep breath. "Oh god my legs hurt like hell
. I think that just made it worse, fuck."
"Ahaha, whoops." I laughed, "Well, at least you tried right?"
"Hey, girly boy, don't give me that quitter talk now." She pointed a paw at me. "This duel isn't over until one of us goes down and I'm sure as hell not dead yet! You… You told me to try right? Then I'll do it, I'll take your full power head on. It hurts like hell but… Well, if I survive then clearly I'm better than that puny-ass sword of yours."
"Well, alright then." I summoned the Blazer Blade back into my hands, "This time, I'm all too happy to oblige! Here I come, Rabbit Guildy!"
"Heh, bring it on you son of a bitch!" If the Rabbit had more than a tiny mouth I'm sure she'd be grinning at me. "Besides, what are you going to do, use that failure of a finishing move?"
"Oh don't worry!" I yelled as I charged at her. "I've thought of a new move while we were punching each other!"
"And what's that?! 'Pray to God that it'll work out'?"
"Nah, I call it…" I came to a sliding halt right in front of the rabbit, pulling back my sword before launching it in a clean horizontal sweep. "TAIL SLICER!"
Blazer Blade: 160 Base Damage, +14 Dice, +120 Critical HIt = 294 Total Damage
Rabbit Guildy: 160 Base Reduction, +6 Dice, -40 Busted Knee, -80 No Hand-eye Coordination = 46 Total Reduction
248 End Damage
Rabbit Guildy: 226 -248 = 0 Remaining Health
EXTINCTION!
The Blazer Blade sliced straight through the… glass thing? The thing in the center of Rabbit Guildy's body, and the sound of shattering glass rang in my ears as the upper and lower half of separated from each other.
"Oh, so I couldn't take it." Rabbit Guildy looked me dead in the eye as her body began to fall to the ground. "I guess this is the part where I'm supposed to say 'Sorry for being a bitch' but honestly I regret nothing."
My lips curled into a small smile, "Figures."
Her next words were barely audible but I could make it out.
"Bye."
With a dull thump her body hit the floor and I barely had any time to back away before the corpse detonated spectacularly in a giant cloud of fire and golden glitter. A few moments later, all that was left of Rabbit Guildy was a severed ear lying on the floor.
I took in a deep breath before sighing. "That just happened."
Of course, all that answered me was the silence of the wind and clappi-
Wait clapping?
From the ramp that led to the lower floors of the parking lot came heavy footprints and a slow clapping sound as a familiar iron knight appeared in the sunlight.
"Well done." Drag Guildy exclaimed, "Well done Tail Red. And Rabbit Guildy too, of course. She put up a fine fight and like Chameleo, also died a warrior's death. It was a great duel, on both sides."
"Drag." I declared, looking up at the bulking figure. "Why are you here? Just to say congratulations?"
"Oh no. Well I mean yes but I came to get something." In what had to be the fastest blur of speed that I had seen today, Drag Guildy appeared besides Rabbit Guildy's ear and picked it up. "This, of course. I can't leave any evidence behind after all."
"...You left Chameleo Guildy's arm at the park after our duel."
The knight paused, "Did I? It wasn't there in the morning…"
"Yeah because I took it home."
"You took home his
arm?"
"Not for anything creepy!" I waved my hands, "There's a scientist who lives in my basement. She's analyzing the arm right now…. I think."
"Ohhh." The knight nodded, "A scientist huh? Well, that explains a few things. Regardless, the tricks we used to get this battlefield empty won't last for much longer, so this is where we say goodbye."
"Alright then- Wait what are you doing."
And before my very eyes, Drag Guildy decided that the best way to exit wasn't going back down the ramp, but to take a running charge and leap off the side of the the building to the ground below.
I hastily scrambled to the edge of the building but by the time I looked down the only thing that was left was a small crater.
...I hoped Grasper is right about that "You can't sue a magical girl" thing.
With a nervous feeling in my chest I untransformed and quickly ran over to the gift bag that was remarkably untouched. Looking around, I ran down the ramp and tried to be as inconspicuous as possible.
When I finally got far enough, I sighed in relief, "Hopefully Grasper accounted for me…"
Man that was… Crazy was one word for it. On the one hand, I was completely and utterly spent. On the other, it was still the afternoon and I could probably just go and talk to someone...
[] Talk to Lan
[] Talk to Twirl
[] Talk to Mom
[] You're too tired to talk, head home and crash until your sleep cycle is broken.
+48 EXP Defeated Rabbit Guildy
+15 EXP Met Tail Blue (several updates ago >_>)
Current EXP: 66
(Shop Updated)
AN: God A Sword, or Hong slowly drives my Beta into fury induced insanity.