Fifteen Journey - Chapter 50

A/N: Hi hi, minna! Ten chapters and counting!

Chapter 50 – Love Explosion

The attack was blocked. But Rick didn’t understand why. The silver lady wasn’t there nor had any wall been made. It could be invisible, but there was a barrier.
In front of him, the silver lady appeared. Soon, the two of them restarted the attacks at each other, before Rick could gaze at Sloan.
The enemy was now staring at Cassey, unsure of what to do. Noticing his look, she ran into the woods and grabbed a long stick. She turned at him once more, grabbing it just like a sword.
“So, now you’ve adopted Flaim’s style…” he grinned and stepped towards her. When he was just a few steps away, she stroke. Like Rick, her attack was blocked by some invisible wall, but Sloan also kicked her in her back, bringing her to the ground. Rick didn’t notice the scene, as he was still sparring with the silver lady, but Cassey’s intention wasn’t catch his intention, but to buy time. Ignoring Sloan’s steps towards her, Cassey closed her eyes and grabbed her pendant in her hands.
Annya’s job wasn’t easy at all. Grabbing Sheila in a bubble was easy, but keeping her there, plus keeping an eye on the entire battlefield was not easy at all. Sheila had an amazing potential and, the much she stayed there, the more motivation she could gather.
Fred and Ashley were some metres away, grabbing Elain. She could barely talk and Fred, inside his robot, could not stop his anger. Why had she done that? Why had she tried to kill him?
As she seemed she had read his thoughts, she tried to answer.
“Spe…” she couldn’t say it.
Her body reacted without any order from herself. She, profiting a moment of distraction, grabbed one of her arrows and tried to damage Fred’s robot. Since it hadn’t been used for a long time, his robot wasn’t damaged, so she did not destroy it at all. Her body then jumped to stay a few metres away from him.
“Stupid! I’m under a…”
‘Kill him.’
Another arrow was put in the bow. But before she could the arrow let go, Annya noticed what she was doing and prepared a blast of energy. When Elain noticed what was going towards her, it was too late. She just let go the arrow and bow and prepared herself for the impact. However, she was pushed away by a saviour hand.
As she landed in the ground, she turned backwards and saw his saviour’s robot burned. Fred quickly got out of the robot and, grabbing Elain in his hands, ran as fast as he could. However, he was caught in the explosion and still rolled a few times, still grabbing Elain close to him.
“Are you okay?” he tried to smile but the pain would not let him.
She looked at him clueless. How could he smile?
“I swore I would protect you, remember?”
She burst into tears and stayed in his arms for a long time. He didn’t mind if she could kill him in one second, he wouldn’t trade that moment for anything.
Due to the explosion, Ashley was hurt as well. But noticing Elain was under Fred’s “control”, she decided to help Mike. Their fight wasn’t going too bad either, as Matt hadn’t attacked one single time due to all his dodging from Horous’s attacks. The problem was that they could not hit him either.
As Matt approached some mountains, Mike profited it. Mentally, he ordered Horous to attack him by destroying the rocky surface, so that Matt would get hit. Without hesitating, Horous did so, and indeed, it worked, as Matt could not be seen. When they thought they had won, Matt reappeared, without a single scratch and removing the dust from his clothes.
“How did you…”
He looked surprised at them.
“You mean you haven’t noticed? I have a barrier, just like Sloan.”

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“You aren’t untouchable anymore…” - Untouchable

Fifteen Journey - Chapter 49

A/N: Woot! I’m getting really excited!
Three more chapters and Sloan’s arc is finished. God, I can’t wait! :D

Chapter 49 – Loyal Team

What he was about to do was against his ideals, but which other chance did they have?
They were hiding in some bushes, watching their camp. Sheila was busy as always and Elain was looking sad at the sky. For their surprise, Sloan was there also, watching the woods waiting for their arrival.
Annya was the first to advance, as they had planed. She came out of her hideout, which was a few steps away from theirs and started the attack. With the same dark power balls she had used against Rick, she blasted the entire camp with several power balls. Some time after, when the camp was so dusty that she could not see a single thing, Annya found herself trapped in a bubble, which she could easily destroy thanks to her dark power. While absorbing the power of the bubble, someone came to her using ultra speed and kicked her hard in the face. Annya was dragged to the ground, some metres away from the place she was originally in, and, looking up, the person who had attacked her had disappeared. Soon after, the dust came back to the ground.
“Elain!”
She had blood all over her body, since she had been targeted with many power balls. Fred tried to run in her direction, but Sheila trapped him into a battle.
“We are in a fight, you know…” she said with a challenging tone.
Sloan appeared later, indifferent to the whole situation.
“Back so soon?”
Rick was obliged to come out of his hideout. Without losing time, he advanced towards Sloan, with Thynia in his hand, and attack circularly. However, something blocked his attack. As he looked ahead, another person stood and had blocked his attack with his or her hands.
Rick jumped backwards and watched the enemy. She wasn’t human. Her skin was silver and she wasn’t bleeding from blocking the sword with her hands. However, she was very fit and perfectly conceived. If she had been human, she used to be a beautiful woman.
In a flash, the woman disappeared as her body was absorbed into Sloan. Rick didn’t understand what kind of power he had, but he sure was powerful.
“Attack them, Elain.”
Her body didn’t give time to any of them to get away. Hopefully, Annya stood up and made a dark barrier between them and the arrows. Fred was outside the barrier, but as long as he was trapped in the bubble, he would be safe. But, smart as a fox, Sloan made a sign to Sheila and she dropped him down.
“Kill him.” he ordered Elain.
She froze. She could never kill him. However, contrary to her will, she locked her target on Fred. Her hands were trembling and her mind wouldn’t let the arrow go.
“Kill him now!”
For her panic, her hand let the arrow go. Fred was staring puzzled at her image, which appeared on the arrow. He couldn’t move at all and he knew her aim was perfect. He closed his eyes to avoid crying.
As he opened his eyes, he saw Cassey holding a sword and the arrow lying in the ground. For Elain’s relief, Cassey was able to run to his direction and, grabbing Rick’s sword, which was in the way, she magically blocked the attack.
Now, it was their time to attack. Quickly, Annya did the same as Sheila was doing and trapped her in a similar bubble, which just couldn’t increase size. Fred called his robot and, together with Ashley, he hurried to take care of Elain, who stared at them trying to be stopped. Indeed, they stopped her. Fred entered his robot and, using his arms, he trapped Elain, which had already been grabbed by Ashley’s ribbon.
One enemy stayed untouched. Rick, Mike, Cassey and Sarith were staring at him, waiting for his attack.
“I feel honoured, so many people came to kill me…” he smiled opening his arms.
Rick ignored his statement and grabbed Thynia tighter.
“You mad people, you will all die…” he warned grinning.
And, with that, Rick advanced towards him, before he could summon the silver lady. But, before she could appear, someone blocked his attack with his sword. When Rick looked at his face, he saw Matt.
“Hello, Seven.”
But, as they landed in the ground once more, Sarith pushed Rick away.
“I must do my duty, right?” she winked at him. “Sloan is waiting for you.”
Rick knew she couldn’t fight by herself with Matt so, he caught Mike’s attention and did a movement. Quickly, Horous transformed himself into the huge monster Rick had originally met, which made Matt a bit scared. And, with Horous behind her, Sarith advanced towards Matt.
Rick was face-to-face with Sloan. He didn’t seem wanting to summon the silver lady at all. Finally, Cassey gave Rick his sword she had used to save Fred, but he grabbed her hand to whisper at her hear.
“You must explain me later how you have such an ability with a sword.” He smiled.
Having said that, Rick decided to strike first. And with a decisive jump, he directed his sword to Sloan, right in his face.

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“I swore I would protect you, remember?” – Love Explosion