Arc 4: What families entail
Road to a Hero:
Three chances in another world
Chapter 36. Not haven a good time
The group runs up the stairs, and barely evades Calgary, who is chasing them.
Soku: “RUN, RUN, RIGHT UPSTAIRS!”
Rosemary: “I KNOW, I REMEMBER THE LAYOUT!”
Gray: “We’re gonna get killed…”
Rosemary: “STOP WHINING! WE GOTTA FINISH THIS!”
Gray: “Sorry, sorry…so…very… loud.”
Peter: “Are we sure Calgary isn’t gonna catch up!? ALSO BEING PULLED LIKE THIS IS GONNA KILL ME!”
Soku: “SORRY, WE GOTTA RUN!”
Gray: “He makes a good point, how are we sure Calgary won’t get us?”
Rosemary: “Um…we aren't…his body doesn't seem to be able to handle the fifth stage…and the higher the stage the higher the damage. And when I hit him it knocked the wind out of him.”
Soku: “But I’m pretty sure he’s a couple of floors down.”
They finally make it to the top floor, finding it burned and broken.
Rosemary: “What the hell happened?”
Gray: “SHHH…get down...Arthur is here.”
They stop moving and get down low, hiding on the staircase. Rosemary pokes her head to see Arthur and Leo fighting. Random blasts of fire and lighting going off. Arthur turns around, looking at the staircase to see nothing. The group slowly moves down the staircase but they hear Calgary coming.
Gray: “We break our cover and tell the Sect our whole plan. Or we die.”
Soku: “I don’t think dying seems that bad right now.”
Peter: “JUMP OUT THE WINDOW!”
Gray: “Yeah, JUMP OUT OF A WINDOW!”
Rosemary: “FINE! BUT WE GOTTA GO DOWN THE STAIRS! I’M NOT JUMPING OUT OF A THIRTY-STORY CASTLE!”
Soku: “I’M GLIDING! OUT, I THINK I CAN HOLD PETER!”
Gray: “I think I can hold Rosemary and glide…or fall gracefully.”
They hear rumbling in the stairwell, so they start to run down the hall. They get halfway down the hall until Calgary finally catches up.
Calgary: “Rosemary, nice to see your pretty face again.”
Rosemary: “Ugh…”
Gray: “Let me down, I wanna kill this guy.”
Soku: “So do I jump?”
Peter: “JUMP, JUMP, JUMP!”
Calgary goes to stage four and kicks the air. Soku drops Peter, runs in front of the group, and swings her glider, picking up a great gust of wind to nullify the blast. Rosemary sets Gray down, and he tries reaching for a blade.
Gray {SHIT! I DROPPED MY SHORT SWORD!}
Gray pulls out his broadsword, undoing his makeshift cast to use his cloak, and tries to access his spiritual sense. Peter throws Gray his mask while Rosemary walks in front of the group and goes into the third stage.
Calgary: “The gangs all here huh? So this is your boyfriend Rosemary? He’s a whiney one isn't he.”
Rosemary: “At least he’s not a creep!"
Gray: “WHAT!? DID THIS GUY TOUCH YOU!?”
Rosemary: “No, but he kissed me without my consent.”
Gray: “So we got a sexual assaulter on our hands. YOU SIR ARE AN ENEMY TO ALL WOMEN EVERYWHERE!”
Calgary: “SHUT UP!”
Calgary runs down the hallway, jumping between the walls, making aiming at him difficult. Rosemary goes into the fourth stage herself and punches the air, knocking Calgary back. She runs up to fight him herself, trading blow after blow. She ducks, letting Peter throw his poppers at him. Calgary tanks the explosives but is unable to avoid a punch to the stomach from Rosemary. He grabs her hand and goes into the fifth stage, twisting her arm and kicking her back. The wind force pushes them all back, and he punches the air with all his might destroying the hallway. Soku jumps in front of the group and creates as much wind as she can to counter the attack. But before it can go off she gets hit with the worst of the attack, knocking her out and sending her flying toward the back wall. The rest of the group gets pushed back as well, and Calgary hits the air again to finish the job.
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They get blown out of the side of the caste, all except Peter. Peter runs up to Calgary with tears in his eyes swinging wildly. Calgary lets Peter hit him, and picks him up by his cape.
Calgary: “This is all the war achieves, nothing personal.”
Peter: “Go to hell.”
Peter spits in Calgary's face, and Calgary responds by throwing him on the ground, promptly knocking him out. Calgary then starts to drag Peter down the hall. On the side of the castle, with no windows in sight, hang Soku, Rosemary, and Gray. When they got blasted out of the castle Gray stuck his broadsword in the castle wall and grabbed onto Rosemary. While Rosemary grabbed onto an unconscious Soku. Gray struggles to hold onto the wall, and the added weight of Rosemary and Soku is too much.
Rosemary: “Is that your broken hand?”
Gray: “It’s busted up…but it’s not that broken…”
Rosemary: “SOKU! SOKU!...it’s useless…and she dropped her glider thing…can you use the cloak of darkness to pull us up?”
Gray: “I would love to…but we fell too far…and I don’t have enough strength…to make it big enough to reach…and I can’t glide with both of you…can you go into your stages?”
Rosemary: “We’re barely…hanging on…only the fourth stage could get us out of this…but the force would knock us off the wall…we’re stuck.”
Gray: “I can’t…even get my OD to push any more mana out…I’ve used too much…I probably couldn’t fight…like five Sect goons…”
Rosemary: “So…is this…it?”
Gray: “DEMA! DEMA! COME ON GIRL!”
Rosemary: “She probably flew off…my arms are giving way…and Sokus’ coat is slipping…”
Gray: “I don’t know how long…I can hold onto the sword either…Rosemary.”
Rosemary: “Yeah?”
Gray: “I have a plan…but you gotta promise to make it out no matter what…”
Rosemary: “Gray? What are you gonna do!?”
Gray: “PROMISE ME!”
Rosemary: “I PROMISE!”
Gray: “I…love you…I’M FROM!”
Grays triggers the verbal lock, forcing his OD to surge. He uses the last bit of strength to throw Rosemary back into the castle. This movement causes the walls stone to crack even more, knocking the sword loose and sending Gray into a free fall. He tries to attach the cloak to the wall but it won’t even stretch, so he continues to fall.
Rosemary: “GRAY!”
Gray {My…body won’t budge…the cloak won’t move…and I got no more mana…I’m dead…}
Gray's eyes turn white, sending out a great wave of spirit mana. Right before he hits the ground, a boom can be heard and Dema flies right under him, catching him. She flies back up and lands in the castle.
Gray: “The…call…worked…”
Rosemary: “GRAY!”
Rosemary kisses Gray and gets on Demas's saddle, placing Soku in front of her and holding her in place. Gray lays himself on Dema and gets her to fly out of the castle.
Soku: “Where's…Peter…?”
Rosemary: “Shit…we can’t get him…Calgary's got em’.”
Gray: “Shit…what do we do?”
Rosemary: “Calgary will kill us if we try and get him…or-”
They hear a loud screaming voice running down the hallway. They prepare themselves for anything, but they see Peter running down the hall screaming for help.
Soku: “PETER!”
Peter: “RUN, GET ON DEMA, AND FLY FAST!”
Peter jumps on Demand, and Rosemary flies her out of the castle. She guides Dema up to the top floor and goes to the side Leo was fighting on. Once they get there, they see cracked and broken walls which are burned and hard.
Peter: “LEO! LEO VALENTINE DO YOU HEAR ME!”
Inside the castle, Leo struggles against Arthur. His armor and body burned and worn out, but the same thing can be said for Arthur.
Arthur: “You…done yet? Your brother…is safe and sound inside his room.”
Leo: “My brother…will come after…either I die…or you die.”
Arthur: “You’re kinda cool y’know…but you’re in my way.”
Leo {The hell’s that sound?}
Leo looks to see Dema perched on the wall upside down looking at him. Leo bolts right through the open wall and starts to go into a free fall until they catch him. Gray, now with his mask off, looks behind him to see Arthur, staring right into his eyes. Arthur is surprised, then excited, then ready. He takes a deep breath and roars a great black flame right at the group.
Soku aims her arm back and blocks a stream of wind, stopping the flames and allowing safe passage.
Gray: “SHIT, WHERE'S JULIUS!?”
Soku: “God dammit.”
Peter: “DOWN THERE!”
Leo: “YEAH WHAT IS THAT?”
They look down to see Calgary holding Julius by the throat right by the castle doors, staring up at them.
Leo: “We can’t go down there…I’m way too sore to fight…we need to go home now.”
Peter: “So we have to leave him?”
Rosemary: “No, we can’t.”
Gray: “I have an idea, drop me off. I’m gonna make a deal.”
Rosemary: “Hell no! I almost lost you a few minutes ago! I’m not going to just hand you over!”
Gray: “Look, I got this.”
Soku: “Gray…I’ll go with you.”
Gray: “NO! You can't, I won't lose another person.”
Soku: “Me neither... “
Gray: “Rosemary…on my signal you fly out of here no matter what you understand?”
Rosemary: “Yeah.”
Dema lands on the ground, right in front of the castle doors. Gray gets off with Soku beside him, placing his mask back over his face.
Julius: “Oh, hello Gray I didn’t know you made it into town.”
Gray: “Sup Julius.”
Calgary: “SHUT UP! I’LL KILL HIM!”
Gray: “I know gosh! Me for him.”
Calgary: “Oh really? Is that easy? Okay. Come on.”
Calgary walks over to Gray, dragging Julius. Calgary then violently throws Julius and grabs Gray by the neck.
Calgary: “That mask is stupid.”
Gray: “You might need to put that old one back on, those scars are gross. Alright then I've wasted enough time, SIGNAL!”
Soku uses her mark of providence to blast Calgary back. Soku and Julius jump back on Dema, But Gray stands still. He flows the cloak onto his legs and takes a deep breath. Calgary gets up, goes into the fifth stage, and goes to kick at Dema.
Gray {Please be right!}
Gray: “LEO, LIGHTING ON THE GROUND NOW!”
Leo places his hand on the ground a unleashes a stream of lightning onto it, shocking Calgary and stopping his attack, pushing his body to the limit. Finally knocking him out. All while the cloak manages to stop Gray from being shocked.
Gray: “YES! I THOUGHT IT FELT LIKE RUBBER! IT’S AN INSULATOR!”
Gray walks over to Calgary's unconscious body and attempts to place it on Dema.
Rosemary: “GET ON!”
Gray goes to get back on Dema when they are met with another gust of black flames. Soku stops it again but it uses the last of her strength the push the massive firs back. Then qthey watch as Arthur falls from the sky and stops his descent with a blast of fire from his feet.
Gray: “GO, GO, GO!”
Gray tries to get on Dema but he's hit with a weak blast of fire.
Gray: “ROSEMARY LEAVE NOW!”
Rosemary wouldn't, couldn't, but the look in Grayson eye forced her hand. So she sheds a tear, and Dema flies off leaving Gray behind. They all watch as Arthur approaches Gray.
Soku: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"
Rosemary: "I TRUST HIM!"
Peter: "WELL I HOPE YOU'RE RIGHT!"
they were already off in the distance, looking back with in their eyes for their friend.
Arthur: “Hey Gray! Been a while since we last saw each other. Seems like your friends are gone. Where’s Edward by the way?”
Gray: “Edward’s...gone. And I assume you’re gonna kill me too?”
Arthur: “Nah, bosses orders. But damn this is annoying! You know it’s funny, we both haven’t met the main bodies, only their apostles. But when I give you to them I’ll finally see them, the people I’ve been working with all this time. And it'll all be worth it."
Gray: “So I’m not dead?”
Arthur: “Sadly no."
Gray takes a deep breath and screams at the top of his lungs.
Gray: “CENIC!”
Arthur: “Useless.”
Cenic's dark smoke cloud surrounds the area, so Arthur goes to blow it away. But suddenly Gray feels his foot being touched in the smoke, and he looks down to see a hand poking out of the ground. Gray gets pulled into one of the various tunnels around the island. He gets picked up by the mysterious man, and when he looks at him he sees him dressed in a thick-plated dark armor. Gray struggles to retain his train of thought, his adrenaline starts to ooze off and after all the commotion, Gray finally loses consciousness.
Gray {...please don't be...and evil mole man...}
After that Arthur shrugged in annoyance, with Gray some how vanished from his sights, all Arthur could do was scream and blast fire at random.
Arthur: "YOU'RE LUCKY I GOT STUFF TO DO KYOJIN OR I'D STAY HERE AND KILL YOU MYSELF! BUT I'VE GOT FORCES, AND JUST BECAUSE YOU MADE IT OUT DOSEN'T MEAN I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GUYS ARE NOW! Athens will be your ashy grave, and you're gonna burn along with it."
END OF Chapter thirty-six
